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noun

Frothing n. Exaggerated declamation; rant.

verb

Froth v. t. (past & past part. frothed; pres. part. frothing)

To cause to foam.

To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. "He... froths treason at his mouth." "Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?"

To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

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

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Etymology of 'Frothing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frothing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Clifford!" said one tall, powerful-looking man who seemed to be a leader among the others, holding out a pewter tankard full and frothing over. ...

— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli

... was of unequal breadth—here and there forming little tables or platforms. At other places, however, it was so narrow that those who were mounted could look over the brink of the precipice into the frothing water below—so narrow that no two animals could have passed each other. These terrible passes were sometimes more than an hundred yards in length, and not straight, but winding around buttresses of the rock, so that one end was not visible ...

— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... and, poised perilously near the edge as the girl already was, it proved too much for her balance. She uttered a terrified shriek, grasped vainly at the bar now quite out of her reach, and, to the horror of those looking helplessly on, toppled over into the frothing, foaming water of ...

— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley

... minute we stood in silence, staring in bewilderment at the sight; then my friend went forward cautiously to the edge of the abyss. I followed, and, together, we looked down through a boil of spray at a monster cataract of frothing water that burst, spouting, from the side of the chasm, nearly a ...

— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson

... thought he was not simulating. A few months later he escaped, went to Belgium, Italy, Corsica. Turning up at a town in France under an assumed name, he was arrested again and elaborately examined. At this time he had frequent attacks of unconsciousness and frothing at the mouth. At times he was melancholy. Summarizing the case, the authors say that the psychic peculiarities of the patient were congenital, and included habitual instability of character with defective development of the ethical sentiments, and tendency to deceit and swindling. Epilepsy ...

— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy

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