Frothy

Definition: Frothy

Frothy

Adjective

1. Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer".

2. Relating to or containing gas bubbles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "frothy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Note: Frothy \Froth"y\, adjective. [Comparative Frothier; superlative Frothiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Frothy

Bubble

Adjective: bubbling. Verb: frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, up.

Diffuseness

Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.

Irresolution

Vacillating; Verb: unsteady; (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, light-minded; giddy; fast and loose.

Ornament

Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Crosswords: Frothy

We're merely running our bulletins through the cappucino machine of innovation, see if it comes out frothy. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Typical symptoms include foul smelling or frothy green discharge from the vagina, vaginal itching or redness. (references)

Symptoms of either form of blepharitis include a foreign body or burning sensation, excessive tearing, itching, sensitivity to light (photophobia), red and swollen eyelids, redness of the eye, blurred vision, frothy tears, dry eye, or crusting of the eyelashes on awakening. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "frothy": frothy beer ♦ light and frothy. Additional references.

Albanian

shkumëzor (foamy), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزبد (barmy, buttery, foamy, frothing, lathery, scummy), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏سطحي (cursory, exterior, external, facile, perfunctory, peripheral, primary, shallow-minded, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, surface, unexperienced, unintelligent), ‏ذبد كثيرا, ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery). (various references)

Bulgarian 

повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty), пенест (barmy, foamy, nappy, scummy, soapy, sudsy), пенлив (brisk, effervescent, foamy, lathery, sparkling, spumous, spumy, yeasty). (various references)

Chinese 

泡沫 (Foam, froth, lather). (various references)

Czech

zpìnìný, pìnivý (effervescent, foamy, spumous, spumy, yeasty), nicotný (futile, meaningless, nugatory, trivial, wishy washy), jalový (barren, fruitless, gassy, vapid). (various references)

Danish

skummende. (various references)

Dutch

schuimig (effervescent, sparkling), schuimend (effervescent, sparkling). (various references)

Finnish

vaahtoinen (foaming, foamy). (various references)

French

spumeux. (various references)

German

schaumig (foamily, foaming, foamy, lathery, scummy, sudsily, sudsy). (various references)

Greek 

αφρώδησ (barmy, foamy, lathery, souffle, sparkling, spumous, spumy, surfy, yeasty), αφρώδης (sparkling). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוקצף (angered, angry, foamy, whipped), מקציף (foamy), מעל�" קצף (foamy), קציף (foamy). (various references)

Hungarian

habzó (beady, churning, effervescent, foamy, frothing, gassy, lathery, scummy). (various references)

Italian

schiumoso (barmy, foamy, lathery, scummy). (various references)

Manx

keshagh (fizzy, frothing, lathery, sudsy, taxable). (various references)

Pig Latin

othyfray.(various references)

Portuguese

fútil (conceited, coxcombical, feckless, frivolity, frivolous, futile, nugatory, peddling, piddling, silliness, slight, trifling, vain), superficial (aboveground, above-ground, amateurish, flashy, flimsy, flippant, lip-deep, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin-deep, superficial, trivial), sem substância, oco (addle, claptrap, concave, hollow), espumoso (blithering, bubbly, gassy, hot-air, spumous, spumy). (various references)

Romanian

fãrã valoare (cheap, good for nothing, halfpenny, indifferent, mean, measly, odd trifles, pale, piffling, simple, threepenny, trashy, trivial, trumpery, useless, void, worthless), fãrã sens (inane, meaningless, nonsensical, piffling, pointless), spumos (barmy, brisk, foamy, lathery, scummy, sparkling, yeasty), lipsit de conţinut (blank, hollow), cu spumã. (various references)

Russian 

пустой (addle, barren, blank, chaffy, do-nothing, empty, feather-brained, feckless, fiddling, foppish, frivolous, gassy, gossipy, hollow, light, light-headed, null, sunken, vacant, vacuous, vapid), пенистый (barmy, foamy, scummy, spumous, spumy, sudsy, yeasty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

površan (cursory, flighty, gossamery, light minded, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, superficial, supervacaneous), penušav (barmy, foamy, nappy, scummy, sparkling, spumous, spumy). (various references)

Spanish

espumoso (barmy, bubbly, foaming, foamy, scummy, sparkling, spumous, spumy). (various references)

Swedish

fradgande (foamy), skummande (barmy, browse, yeasty). (various references)

Turkish

saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), köpüklü (barmy, beady, fizzy, foamy, sparkling, spumous, spumy, sudsy, yeasty), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty). (various references)

Ukrainian

пустий (addle, airy, bald, bare, barren, baseless, begging, chaffy, empty, otiose, sounding, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty), пінистий (barmy, brisk, foamy, lathery, scummy, spumous, white-headed, yeasty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô tích sự (good-for-nothing, good-for-nought, ne'er-do-well), sủi bọt như bọt rỗng tuếch, phù phiếm (frivolous, giddy), nổi bọt, có bọt (foamy, spumescent, spumous, spumy). (various references)

Welsh

ewynnog (foaming, foamy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Frothy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brothy, Forthey, forthly, foth, fraty, Freathby, freth, Frety, Frithe, fromthe, fruthy, fruty, roth, rothay. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: forth, forty, froth.

-2 letters: fort, ryot, thro, tory, troy, tyro.

-3 letters: foh, for, foy, fro, fry, hot, hoy, oft, ort, rho, rot, tho, thy, tor, toy, try.

-4 letters: ho, of, oh, or, oy, to, yo.

+2 letters: fortyish, fourthly, frothily.

+3 letters: forsythia.

+4 letters: forsythias.

+5 letters: fortnightly.