afroth

Adjective

afroth (not comparable)

1. Covered with froth, foam.
   • Fine the horses, with flying manes and tight lithe bodies, shoulders sweating, muscles rippling, mouths afroth.1969, Robert Coover, Pricksongs & descants: fictions, page 170
   • Like an underwater detonation, the pool was afroth with flapping and splashing.2005, Robin Cody, Ricochet River, page 139
2. (figuratively) Full of, or covered with something.
   • The charms of a blue-eyed chestnut-haired maiden in a turquoise muslin, with a brown boa, and a brown chip hat afroth with brown feathers, could not be gainsaid.1908 August 20, “Women in Print”, in Evening Post, page 9
   • […] Ebenezer Cooke […] who […] had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point.1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
3. (figuratively) Excited.
   • Last Saturday, the day before the Oscars, when the entire fashion world was afroth about which starlet was planning to wear what the next night, a small item in The New York Times caught our eye.2005 March 1, Lynn Jaeger, “Toxic Tank Tops, and Other Oscar Revelations”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2008
   • The weighty editorial page of The Times of London doesn't make a habit of devoting thought to the travails of pop singers, whose exploits now more than ever keep the red-top British tabloids afroth.2008 January 26, Mitch Potter, “Times' editorial page calls for intervention to save Winehouse”, in TheStar.com