Frothy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frothy \Froth"y\, a. [Compar. {Frothier}; superl. {Frothiest}.]
     1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light
        bubbles; spumous; foamy.
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     2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. --Bacon.


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     3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a
        frothy speaker or harangue. --Tillotson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frothy
       adj 1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or
              fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy)
              beer" [syn: {bubbling}, {bubbly}, {foaming}, {foamy},
              {effervescing}]
       2: relating to or containing gas bubbles [syn: {foamy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "frothy":
     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-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, nugacious, nugatory,
     otiose, rakish, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded,
     shallow-pated, shallow-witted, showy, silly, slender, slight,
     snazzy, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, souffle, splashy, splurgy,
     sporty, spumose, spumous, spumy, suddy, sudsy, superficial,
     trifling, trite, trivial, unheavy, unprofound, vacuous, vain,
     vapid, volatile, weightless, windy, yeasty