frotheryn.
Mere froth, empty display, triviality.Apparently an isolated use.
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1851 T. Carlyle Jrnl. 21 Apr. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) II. xix. 79 ‘All nations’ crowding to us with their so-called industry or ostentatious frothery.
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n.1851- to be on different planet
- to be on edge
- to be on for
- to be on heckle pins
- to be on her, trial
- to be on his trial
- to be on honour
- to be on its trial
- to be on lates
- to be on light duty
- to be on losing
- to be on nodding terms
- to be on nodding terms with
- to be on occasionally on the edge
- to be on occasionally upon edge
- to be on one's feet
- to be on one's game
- to be on one's honour
- to be on one's last go-round
- to be on one's last goround
- to be on one's merry way
- to be on one's mettle
- to be on one's p's and q's
- to be on one's peremptors
- to be on one's promotion