froath

Noun

froth (countable and uncountable, plural froths)

1. Foam.
   • Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
2. (figuratively) Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel.
   • Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?
3. The idle rich.
   • That it offers the best imaginable field for the economical employment of the least useful of our population, viz. "the froth and the dregs,” those of both extremes of the social scale who prefer adventure, excitement, action, idleness if you will, to steady plodding business ways.1871, Sir Edward Robert Sullivan, The Froth and the Dregs, page 112
4. Highly speculative investment.
   • Efforts of this kind, spurred on to fever heat by tax incentives can only generate inflationary froth - not real hard investment.1966, United States Congress House Committee on Ways and Means, Legislative History of H.R. 17607, 89th Congress, page 1329

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