US /fɹɔθ/ UK /fɹɒθ/
verb Freq #36366

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    become bubbly or frothy or foaming

    The boiling soup was frothing.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 verb · become bubbly or frothy or... sparkle
Word family
Forms frothedfrothingfroths
Derived forms afrothfroth-hopperfrotherfrotheryfrothlessfrothsomefrothy
Related forms frothy

Etymology

From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.

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