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frothing

frothing

6.7
Covered in thick foam at the mouth because of illness or being very tired
  • adjective
  • /ˈfrɔːθɪŋ/
translation icon : espumoso
  • The dog was frothing at the mouth after running for hours in the heat.

Just angry, frothing, just physically in pain.

Examples

  • Dead mountain lions, black bears and their baby Cubs frothing at the mouth, dead in trees from ingesting these neurotoxins from a grow.

  • And nobody in that is is, you know, frothing at the mouth and screaming and shouting.

  • Like they show off their frothing technique or they make coffee well.

  • Just angry, frothing, just physically in pain.

    Two Hot Takes

  • This is why when you're just frothing with emotion, you make terrible decisions.

  • I just want to cover all of the topics for all the raging frothing people who are saying I missed the point.

  • They're they're frothing at the mouth for that to happen because their default setting is racism.

  • But but there's this possibility that empty space sort of, you know, has this frothing quantum foam that's sort of.

  • After the intense workout, he lay on the floor, frothing from exhaustion.

  • The patient was frothing due to the serious infection affecting his health.

Synonyms

frothy
vsfrothing
8 3.2

A liquid with many small bubbles and a layer of foam

is focused on foam on sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
foamy
vsfrothing
6 2.2

Covered with many small bubbles, like the top of a cappuccino

is specific to foam on sweat or saliva often caused by illness or stress
foaming
vsfrothing
4.6

Covered in bubbles of sweat or spit, often from sickness

is the general state of being covered with foam from exhaustion or agitation
lathery
vsfrothing
6.4

Covered in soft white soap bubbles

is about foam produced by bodily distress rather than a soaplike texture

How Frothy

frothing
6.7
foaming
2.9

Surface Forms

frothing positive

Morphology

frothing = froth (transparent) = froth + ing

Standard adjectival/participle formation from the verb 'froth'; the meaning is directly derived from 'froth'.

Etymology

Frothing comes from the old word froth, which means 'foam' or 'bubbles'. So frothing describes something making or covered with foam, like an exhausted or sick animal 'foaming' at the mouth.