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frothy

frothy adjective: foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles.

Adjective

frothy (comparative frothier, superlative frothiest)

  1. Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles.
    • I like my milkshakes frothy, not flat like this!
    • When this brown head was obtained the juice was drawn off into barrels, the lees were left in the keeve, and new juice was pumped upon these lees, this, however, produced a white frothy head, similar to that in the remaining keeves.1903, Frederick James Lloyd, Report on the Results of Investigations Into Cidermaking, page 50
    Synonyms:
    foamy
  2. (figuratively) Lightweight; lacking depth or substance.
    • songs with frothy lyrics
    • a frothy argument
  3. Highly speculative; having high risk and high return.
    • But we have found it profitable to engage in some trading on our own account, generally in the rather frothy areas.1974, Australia. Parliament, Parliamentary Papers, page 297
    • First, many of the welfare gains of the previous two decades or more turned out to have been illusory, as house and share prices tumbled, jobs disappeared and frothy investment opportunities collapsed.2010, Bill Jordan, What's Wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix It, page 47

Noun

frothy (plural frothies)

  1. (Australia, in plural, slang) A serving of beer.

frothy meaning in Hindi and Malayalam

frothy in Hindi

frothy, foamy
फेनिल phenil

frothy in Malayalam

നുരയുള്ള, ലഘുവായ, പൊള്ളയായ, അസാരവത്തായ

Examples of frothy in a sentence

  • The motion of this liquid layer was made visible by the small , frothy bubbles of vapor which were present in the film.1964, John Henry Vohr, A Photographic Study of Boiling Flow, page 113:
  • For a frothy result, in a blender blend the hot chocolate in batches.1992, Pearl Violette Metzelthin, editor, Gourmet - Volume 52, Issues 1-6, page 128:
  • Now, I ask those honourable gentlemen who have given us a good deal of frothy argument this evening, without much business basis in it, who is going to pay that bill?1921, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives, page 888:

All 22 example sentences with frothy

Synonyms of frothy

Forms of frothy

Adjective
comparativefrothier
superlativefrothiest
Noun
pluralfrothies

Origin of frothy

From froth + -y.

Words formed from frothy

Questions about frothy

What does frothy mean?
Frothy means foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles.
What is frothy in Hindi?
Frothy in Hindi is फेनिल (phenil). See Frothy meaning in Hindi.
How do you use frothy in a sentence?
The motion of this liquid layer was made visible by the small , frothy bubbles of vapor which were present in the film.
What part of speech is frothy?
Frothy can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near frothy in the dictionary

  1. froths
  2. froths at the gash
  3. froths at the mouth
  4. froths up
  5. frothsome
  6. frothy
  7. frots
  8. frottage
  9. frottaged
  10. frottages
  11. frottaging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frothy (page history and authors); फेनिल (Hindi) (page history and authors); frothy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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