Froth /(?)/

Froth

n.
  1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
  2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
    It was a long speech, but all froth.
  3. Light, unsubstantial matter.

Phrases & Compounds
Froth insect
the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.
Froth spit
See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.

Froth

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Frothed

  1. To cause to foam.
  2. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
    He . . . froths treason at his mouth.
    Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
  3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

Froth

v. i.
  1. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.