frothyadj.

Brit.

/ˈfrɒθi/,

/ˈfrɔːθi/, U.S.

/ˈfrɔθi/,

/ˈfrɑθi/

Etymology: < froth n. + -y suffix¹.

a. Full of, covered with, or accompanied by froth or foam; foamy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth

foamyOE

foaminga1400

spumingc1400

frothy?1531

spurging1566

fretting1567

fuming1598

white-mouthed1598

frory1600

yeastya1616

frothed1616

frothing1628

lathering1630

mantling1633

sudding1633

spumeous1635

spewy1743

spooming1818

despumatious1819

yeastinga1821

creaming1825

spumous1854

frothsome1880

lathery1880

bubblesome1946

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. f4^v Their..frothye waves.

1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Fiij^v The hunted boare..Whose frothie mouth..A second feare through all her sinews spred.

1613 N. Breton Vncasing Machiuils Instr. C ij b Beare with a Tapster though his Cans be frothie.

1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xxiii. 117 When you doe find your Hawkes mouth and throat to bee continually froathy and furred.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 32 Two Boars..With rising Bristles, and with froathy Jaws.

1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 281 Wanton Joy Lavish had spilt the Cyder's frothy Flood.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 695 A frothy cough ensues.

1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 311 The urine..was turbid and of a reddish colour, very frothy [etc.].

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 154 Back the frothy wave is flowing.

†b. frothy poppy n. the bladder campion, Silene inflata.So called because it was supposed that cuckoo-spit was more frequently found on this than on other plants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > campion and ragged robin

cow-rattle14..

campion1576

behen1578

crowsoap1578

white campion1578

catchfly1597

feather-top wild campion1597

frothy poppy1597

lime-wort1597

nonsuch1597

sea campion1597

spattling poppy (also campion)1597

Greek rose1601

lychnis1601

knap-bottle1640

moss pink1641

Lobel's catchfly1664

red robin1678

moss campion1690

red campion1728

round robin1741

Silene1751

Nottingham catchfly1762

silenal1836

Robin Hood1844

thunder-flower1853

gunpowder weed1860

sea-catchfly1864

robin redbreast1880

poppy1886

thunderbolt1886

rattleweed1893

cancer1896

bladder-campion-

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 551 Behen album,..of some..called Ocymastrum, and Papauer spumeum, which I have Englished Spatling Poppie... In English Spatling Poppie, frothie Poppie, and white Ben.

1878 in J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names

a. Consisting of froth or light bubbles, of the nature of or resembling foam, spumous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth > consisting or of the nature of foam or froth

spumousc1400

spumose1576

foamy1601

frothy1605

spumya1618

spumiform1805

spumescent1856

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. vii. 32 The flower of salt..is frothy.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. iii. 237 That spumous frothy dew or exudation.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 108 About his churning Chaps the frothy bubbles rise.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 140 His saliva was remarkably frothy.

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxv. 320 The frothy breccia on one side.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 454 The tapetum becomes disorganised and forms a frothy mucilage.

†b. Soft, not firm or solid, flabby. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > flabby or flaccid

bloatc1300

quavya1398

lennow1528

fobbya1535

flaggya1565

limber1592

quaggy1611

flaccid1620

frothy1626

boggy1664

flabby1697

limp1706

loppy1855

limpsy1865

huffy1890

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §740 You need not fear that Bathing should make them [the Turks' bodies] frothy.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1070 She hath a frothy body.

c. Used to describe very light, tenuous dress-material.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [adjective] > thin, light, or delicate

lightc1230

small1473

cypress1530

sheer1565

sleazy1670

zephyr1809

slim1813

arachnean1854

spring weight1869

chiffon1890

frothy1901

1901 Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 3/2 In evening frocks and teagowns there is still a very marked liking for frilled frothy edges.

1930 [see frothiness n. at Derivatives].

3. figurative. Vain, empty, unsubstantial, trifling. Also, of a person: Having no depth of character, conviction, knowledge, etc.; shallow.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective]

idlec825

giddyc1000

volage?a1366

apec1370

foolisha1382

vain1390

idleful1483

volageous1487

glaikit1488

cock-brained1530

apish1532

empty1550

sillyc1555

frivolous?1563

tickle-headed1583

light-braineda1593

frothy1593

owlish1596

bird-witted1605

empty-headed1614

idle-headed1614

empty-pateda1628

marmosetical1630

grollish1637

feather-headed1647

nonsense1647

whirl-crowned1648

feather-brained1649

swimmering1650

soft-pated1651

weather-headeda1652

shuttlecock1660

drum-headed1664

chicken-brained1678

halokit1724

desipient1727

shatter-pated1727

scattered-brained1747

light-thoughted1777

scatter-brained1804

shandy-pated1806

hellicat1815

feather-pated1819

inane1819

weather-brained1826

bubble-headed1827

tomfoolish1838

bird-brained1892

tottle1894

fluffy1898

scatty1911

wandery1912

scattery1924

twitterpated1943

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial

thin?c1225

lighta1413

superficiala1425

sleevelessc1450

frivolous1549

frothy1593

windy1593

shallow1594

airy1600

ghostlessa1603

sleazy1648

tenuious1656

wishy-washy1693

gauzy1774

lathery1803

wish-washy1814

tenuousa1817

toy1821

flimsy1827

airy-fairy1857

facile1857

feeblish1882

popcorn1973

1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 16 The abiectest and frothiest forme of Diuinitie.

1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. I4 ^v Such frothy Gallants.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iii. 50 Contentious disputes, and frothy reasonings.

1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 189 Our frothy censurers.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 66 Most young People are too frothy.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxviii. 412 Adding, in his frothy Way, Now can I say, I have saluted an Angel.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii. 64/2 With..much frothy rant.

1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two I. xvi. 309 A mere ranter, a frothy mob orator.

1885 Mag. Art Sept. 450/2 Much frothy fine writing.

absolute.1762 S. Foote Orators ii. 59 You will have at one view..the frothy, the turgid, the calm, and the clamorous.

Compounds

frothy-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan I. 133 A frothy-looking silk crêpe.

Derivatives

ˈfrothily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adverb] > in a foamy or frothy manner

foamingly1611

frothily1727

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adverb]

giddilya1250

ape1509

vainly1588

emptily1591

frivolously1611

frothily1727

owlishly1846

inanely1883

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > insubstantially

frothily1727

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Frothily, with Froth; also emptily, not solidly or substantially, lightly.

1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 313 The..face..that looked out so formally flat in Foppington, so frothily pert in Tattle.

1890 Longman's Mag. Nov. 109 Persons who frothily declaim about genius.

ˈfrothiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > state of being foamy or frothy

frothiness1615

yeastiness1778

spumescence1794

foaminess1887

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [noun]

giddiheadc1275

giddinessa1290

lighthead1340

vanityc1386

glaikitnessa1500

idleness1535

levity1564

emptiness1577

vainness1591

frivolousnessa1631

volageness1633

grollery1637

brain-giddinessa1652

desipience1656

desipiencya1682

frothinessa1716

inanity1756

frivolity1796

unpracticalness1828

unpracticality1840

bird-wittedness1854

scattiness1959

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality

vacuity1593

inanity1603

slightnessa1616

outsideness1647

frothinessa1716

sleaziness1727

floatiness1839

thistledown1868

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > thin, light, or delicate > for clothing > quality of

frothiness1930

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 259 The humidity, heate, frothinesse and whitenes.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. 264 The profaneness and frothiness of his discourse.

1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 5 A limpid fluid..unobscured by frothiness.

1930 Times 13 Mar. 11/6 The outstanding feature is the frothiness of the dresses made from perishable materials with their innumerable frills, flounces, and furbelows.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	frothy
释义	frothyadj. Brit. /ˈfrɒθi/, /ˈfrɔːθi/, U.S. /ˈfrɔθi/, /ˈfrɑθi/ Etymology: < froth n. + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Full of, covered with, or accompanied by froth or foam; foamy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth foamyOE foaminga1400 spumingc1400 frothy?1531 spurging1566 fretting1567 fuming1598 white-mouthed1598 frory1600 yeastya1616 frothed1616 frothing1628 lathering1630 mantling1633 sudding1633 spumeous1635 spewy1743 spooming1818 despumatious1819 yeastinga1821 creaming1825 spumous1854 frothsome1880 lathery1880 bubblesome1946 ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. f4^v Their..frothye waves. 1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Fiij^v The hunted boare..Whose frothie mouth..A second feare through all her sinews spred. 1613 N. Breton Vncasing Machiuils Instr. C ij b Beare with a Tapster though his Cans be frothie. 1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xxiii. 117 When you doe find your Hawkes mouth and throat to bee continually froathy and furred. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 32 Two Boars..With rising Bristles, and with froathy Jaws. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 281 Wanton Joy Lavish had spilt the Cyder's frothy Flood. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 695 A frothy cough ensues. 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 311 The urine..was turbid and of a reddish colour, very frothy [etc.]. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 154 Back the frothy wave is flowing. †b. frothy poppy n. the bladder campion, Silene inflata.So called because it was supposed that cuckoo-spit was more frequently found on this than on other plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > campion and ragged robin cow-rattle14.. campion1576 behen1578 crowsoap1578 white campion1578 catchfly1597 feather-top wild campion1597 frothy poppy1597 lime-wort1597 nonsuch1597 sea campion1597 spattling poppy (also campion)1597 Greek rose1601 lychnis1601 knap-bottle1640 moss pink1641 Lobel's catchfly1664 red robin1678 moss campion1690 red campion1728 round robin1741 Silene1751 Nottingham catchfly1762 silenal1836 Robin Hood1844 thunder-flower1853 gunpowder weed1860 sea-catchfly1864 robin redbreast1880 poppy1886 thunderbolt1886 rattleweed1893 cancer1896 bladder-campion- 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 551 Behen album,..of some..called Ocymastrum, and Papauer spumeum, which I have Englished Spatling Poppie... In English Spatling Poppie, frothie Poppie, and white Ben. 1878 in J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 2. a. Consisting of froth or light bubbles, of the nature of or resembling foam, spumous. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth > consisting or of the nature of foam or froth spumousc1400 spumose1576 foamy1601 frothy1605 spumya1618 spumiform1805 spumescent1856 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. vii. 32 The flower of salt..is frothy. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. iii. 237 That spumous frothy dew or exudation. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 108 About his churning Chaps the frothy bubbles rise. View more context for this quotation 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 140 His saliva was remarkably frothy. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxv. 320 The frothy breccia on one side. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 454 The tapetum becomes disorganised and forms a frothy mucilage. †b. Soft, not firm or solid, flabby. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > flabby or flaccid bloatc1300 quavya1398 lennow1528 fobbya1535 flaggya1565 limber1592 quaggy1611 flaccid1620 frothy1626 boggy1664 flabby1697 limp1706 loppy1855 limpsy1865 huffy1890 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §740 You need not fear that Bathing should make them [the Turks' bodies] frothy. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1070 She hath a frothy body. c. Used to describe very light, tenuous dress-material. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [adjective] > thin, light, or delicate lightc1230 small1473 cypress1530 sheer1565 sleazy1670 zephyr1809 slim1813 arachnean1854 spring weight1869 chiffon1890 frothy1901 1901 Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 3/2 In evening frocks and teagowns there is still a very marked liking for frilled frothy edges. 1930 [see frothiness n. at Derivatives]. 3. figurative. Vain, empty, unsubstantial, trifling. Also, of a person: Having no depth of character, conviction, knowledge, etc.; shallow. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective] idlec825 giddyc1000 volage?a1366 apec1370 foolisha1382 vain1390 idleful1483 volageous1487 glaikit1488 cock-brained1530 apish1532 empty1550 sillyc1555 frivolous?1563 tickle-headed1583 light-braineda1593 frothy1593 owlish1596 bird-witted1605 empty-headed1614 idle-headed1614 empty-pateda1628 marmosetical1630 grollish1637 feather-headed1647 nonsense1647 whirl-crowned1648 feather-brained1649 swimmering1650 soft-pated1651 weather-headeda1652 shuttlecock1660 drum-headed1664 chicken-brained1678 halokit1724 desipient1727 shatter-pated1727 scattered-brained1747 light-thoughted1777 scatter-brained1804 shandy-pated1806 hellicat1815 feather-pated1819 inane1819 weather-brained1826 bubble-headed1827 tomfoolish1838 bird-brained1892 tottle1894 fluffy1898 scatty1911 wandery1912 scattery1924 twitterpated1943 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial thin?c1225 lighta1413 superficiala1425 sleevelessc1450 frivolous1549 frothy1593 windy1593 shallow1594 airy1600 ghostlessa1603 sleazy1648 tenuious1656 wishy-washy1693 gauzy1774 lathery1803 wish-washy1814 tenuousa1817 toy1821 flimsy1827 airy-fairy1857 facile1857 feeblish1882 popcorn1973 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 16 The abiectest and frothiest forme of Diuinitie. 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. I4 ^v Such frothy Gallants. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iii. 50 Contentious disputes, and frothy reasonings. 1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 189 Our frothy censurers. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 66 Most young People are too frothy. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxviii. 412 Adding, in his frothy Way, Now can I say, I have saluted an Angel. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii. 64/2 With..much frothy rant. 1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two I. xvi. 309 A mere ranter, a frothy mob orator. 1885 Mag. Art Sept. 450/2 Much frothy fine writing. absolute.1762 S. Foote Orators ii. 59 You will have at one view..the frothy, the turgid, the calm, and the clamorous. Compounds frothy-looking adj. ΚΠ 1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan I. 133 A frothy-looking silk crêpe. Derivatives ˈfrothily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adverb] > in a foamy or frothy manner foamingly1611 frothily1727 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adverb] giddilya1250 ape1509 vainly1588 emptily1591 frivolously1611 frothily1727 owlishly1846 inanely1883 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > insubstantially frothily1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Frothily, with Froth; also emptily, not solidly or substantially, lightly. 1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 313 The..face..that looked out so formally flat in Foppington, so frothily pert in Tattle. 1890 Longman's Mag. Nov. 109 Persons who frothily declaim about genius. ˈfrothiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > state of being foamy or frothy frothiness1615 yeastiness1778 spumescence1794 foaminess1887 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [noun] giddiheadc1275 giddinessa1290 lighthead1340 vanityc1386 glaikitnessa1500 idleness1535 levity1564 emptiness1577 vainness1591 frivolousnessa1631 volageness1633 grollery1637 brain-giddinessa1652 desipience1656 desipiencya1682 frothinessa1716 inanity1756 frivolity1796 unpracticalness1828 unpracticality1840 bird-wittedness1854 scattiness1959 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality vacuity1593 inanity1603 slightnessa1616 outsideness1647 frothinessa1716 sleaziness1727 floatiness1839 thistledown1868 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > thin, light, or delicate > for clothing > quality of frothiness1930 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 259 The humidity, heate, frothinesse and whitenes. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. 264 The profaneness and frothiness of his discourse. 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 5 A limpid fluid..unobscured by frothiness. 1930 Times 13 Mar. 11/6 The outstanding feature is the frothiness of the dresses made from perishable materials with their innumerable frills, flounces, and furbelows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.?1531
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