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Fother vs Frother - What's the difference?

fother | frother |

As nouns the difference between fother and frother

is that fother is (obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort while frother is a machine that generates froth.

As verbs the difference between fother and frother

is that fother is (dialect) to feed animals (with fother) while frother is (dialectal) to comfort.

fother

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.
  • an old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
  • *1866 : Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19½ hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times. —James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168.
  • (dialect) Food for animals.
  • * 1663 ,
  • *:He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother , / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
  • (unit of weight)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
  • To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

    • Anagrams

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    frother

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), alteration of frovre, .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialectal) To comfort.
  • (dialectal) To feed.
    • Related terms
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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A machine that generates froth
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 14, Harold Mcgee, For a Tastier Wine, the Next Trick Involves ..., New York Times, url=
    • , passage=There is a battery-powered frother , and a small glass channel that adds turbulence and air bubbles as the wine flows through it from the bottle into the glass.}}