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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made of, covered with, or resembling froth; foamy.
- adjective Playfully frivolous in character or content.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of or accompanied with foam or froth; consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.
- Vain; light; unsubstantial; given to empty declamation; wordy: as, a frothy harangue; a frothy speaker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.
- adjective Not firm or solid; soft; unstable.
- adjective Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Foamy orchurned to the point of becominginfused withbubbles . - adjective figuratively
lightweight ; lacking depth or substance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by high spirits or excitement
- adjective emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
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Examples
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I believe you are referring to Santorum, which is also defined as a frothy mix of some sort.
Minnesota Supremes Reject Coleman Lawsuit, Clearing Way For Franken Win Later Today 2009
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Reports in the state of this condition - called frothy bloat - range geographically, roughly from Grayson County to eastern Kentucky to Cincinnati, said Jeff Lehmkuhler, an extension beef cattle specialist for the University of Kentucky.
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Also, if your surname is slang for a 'frothy' anal sex byproduct, best you steer clear of phrases like "Conservative stool."
HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Chris Lee Steps Down Eliot Nelson 2011
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Also, if your surname is slang for a 'frothy' anal sex byproduct, best you steer clear of phrases like "Conservative stool."
HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Chris Lee Steps Down Eliot Nelson 2011
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She wrote two other novels as well as a "frothy" late memoir, Life Itself!
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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I do very much like writing in coffee shops, surrounded by people and with some kind of frothy coffee drink at my side.
Book Chick City Book Chick City 2009
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I'm not saying you are "frothy" but a lot of the froth on this issue presumes that Obama would pull a Cheney and jump to step 3 first.
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I think the point of the story is that the price/rent ratio has been a bit high in some of the more "frothy" areas.
Housing Rents and Bubbles, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Female critics -- the genre's most frequent, and thus its loudest -- are understandably afraid of having their entire sex tarred with the same "frothy" brush as their chick-lit writing counterparts.
Rachel Sklar: This Blog Post Is Not Chick Lit, Except That I'm Wearing Heels 2008
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This may not be the kind of frothy endorsement most presidential contenders covet.
Related Words
synonyms (95)
Words with the same meaning
- airy
- asinine
- barmy
- birdbrained
- birdwitted
- brave
- bravura
- braw
- bubbly
- catchpenny
- chichi
- daring
- dashing
- downy
- dressy
- empty
- ethereal
- exhibitionistic
- fatuous
- featherbrained
- feathery
- flashing
- flashy
- flaunting
- flighty
- flimsy
- fluffy
- foam
- foam-flecked
- foamy
- foolish
- fribble
- fribbling
- frilly
- frivolous
- futile
- gallant
- gay
- glittering
- gossamery
- heady
- idle
- imponderous
- inane
- jaunty
- jazzy
- lathery
- leger
- light
- light as air
- lighter than vanity
- mousse
- nonsense
- nugacious
- nugatory
- otiose
- rakish
- shallow
- shallow-headed
- shallow-minded
- shallow-pated
- shallow-witted
- showy
- silly
- slender
- slight
- snazzy
- soapsuddy
- soapsudsy
- soapy
- soft
- souffle
- splashy
- splurgy
- sporty
- spumose
- spumous
- spumy
- suddy
- sudsy
- superficial
- trifling
- trite
- trivial
- unheavy
- unprofound
- unstable
- unsubstantial
- vacuous
- vain
- vapid
- volatile
- weightless
- windy
- yeasty
sonofgroucho commented on the word frothy
"It's frothy man" (See Cresta on this page).
April 16, 2007
bilby commented on the word frothy
South African slang - a fit of temper.
February 26, 2008