latheredadj.

Brit.

/ˈlɑːðəd/,

/ˈlaðəd/, U.S.

/ˈlæðərd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: lather v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < lather v. + -ed suffix¹.

1. That has been worked into a lather.Apparently not recorded in 19th cent.

1734 Physical Ess. Parts Human Body & Animal Econ. x. 69 The Saliva is a sort of lather'd Soap.

1920 A. Hope Lucinda 154 He stopped shaving for a moment and turned round to me, one side of his face scraped clean, the other still covered with lathered soap.

2016 R. Demers Sand Dollars 432 A swirling wind eddied sharply, whipping the waters to lathered milk around him as his bubbles torpedoed to the deep.

2. Very sweaty from exertion or heat; spec. (of a horse or a part of its body) covered in a lather of sweat. Cf. lather n. 1c.Now chiefly of horses; of a person colloquial in later use, and chiefly English regional (northern).

1782 Philos. Quixote II. xviii. 62 Thomas [sc. the porter] followed as fast as his legs could carry him; and you will easily conceive the lathered and breathless condition in which he arrived.

1796 ‘Juvenis’ Village Muse 41 The lather'd steed, forgetful of his toil, Stops the keen plough-share in the sluggish soil.

1852 New Monthly Mag. May 103 They turned their pumped and lathered horses to the grateful influence of the westerly breeze.

1877 London Society July 77/1 ‘Had a stiff run, sir?’ said he, as he stood at her [sc. a horse] head and glanced at her lathered shoulders.

1947 J. B. Yeats Careless Flower i. 27 I'll walk up and down it, cool down... I'm lathered right down into my boots.

1989 Washington Post 19 Feb. c16/3 If it's an Indian summer day, watch that the horse doesn't get too lathered.

2017 Lancs. Evening Post (Nexis) 5 Apr. I am lathered! The heat..is unbelievable.

3. Covered in soap lather.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [adjective] > dressed with preparations > covered with lather

lathered1790

1790 P. M. Freneau in Daily Advertiser (N.Y.) 12 Mar. The barber..Forgets his lather'd man, And leaves him, grac'd with half a beard.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xvi. 287 The doctor had his lathered face turned towards the group.

1911 Museum News (Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci.) Jan. 61 One of the principal attractions at this time [for the monkey] seems to be the opportunity to eat ivory soap and to lick the foamy soapsuds from his lathered arms and legs.

1965 Harvard (Illinois) Herald 26 Aug. ii. 6/2 The customer leaped from the chair and forgetting about his lathered face, ran madly down the street.

2009 C. Charles In Pursuit Running Water ii. 7 Marianna standing on the top step pours a basin of water over his lathered body.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

lathered adj. Very sweaty from exertion or heat; spec. (of a horse) covered in white, frothy sweat (cf. lather n. 1c). Now chiefly of horses; of a person colloquial in later use and chiefly English regional (northern).

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