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FROTHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frothy mean?
• FROTHY (adjective)
The adjective FROTHY has 2 senses:
1. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
2. marked by high spirits or excitement
Familiarity information: FROTHY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: frothiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
Synonyms:
bubbling; bubbly; effervescing; foaming; foamy; frothy; spumy
Context example:
foamy (or frothy) beer
Similar:
effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)
Derivation:
froth (a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid)
frothiness (the property of giving off bubbles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by high spirits or excitement
Synonyms:
bubbling; effervescent; frothy; scintillating; sparkly
Context example:
a row of sparkly cheerleaders
Similar:
lively (full of life and energy)
Context examples
Following Mr. Dashwood's directions, and making Mrs. Northbury her model, Jo rashly took a plunge into the frothy sea of sensational literature, but thanks to the life preserver thrown her by a friend, she came up again not much the worse for her ducking.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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