frothing

Verb

froth (third-person singular simple present froths, present participle frothing, simple past and past participle frothed)

1. (transitive) To create froth in (a liquid).
   • I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
2. (intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.
   • Colder and louder blew the wind,
     A gale from the Northeast,
     The snow fell hissing in the brine,
     And the billows frothed like yeast.1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Wreck of the Hesperus, lines 21–4
3. (transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
   • The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek.
     He frets within, froths treason at his mouth,
     And churns it thro’ his teeth […]1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 14
4. (intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
   • The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws,
     opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone.1958, Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, London: Secker and Warburg, published 1938, Book XIII
5. (transitive) To cover with froth.
   • A horse froths his chain.

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