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Froth vs Gurgle - What's the difference?

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Froth is a related term of gurgle.


As nouns the difference between froth and gurgle

is that froth is foam while gurgle is a gurgling sound.

As verbs the difference between froth and gurgle

is that froth is to create froth in while gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound.

froth

English

Noun

  • foam
    • Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
    {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth , hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red.}}
  • (figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel
  • * L'Estrange
    • It was a long speech, but all froth .
    Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth ?

    Derived terms

    * froth fly * froth insect * froth spit * froth worm

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To create froth in.
    • I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
  • To bubble.
    • The chemical frothed up when I added the acid.
  • To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
  • * Dryden
    • He froths treason at his mouth.
  • * Tennyson
    • Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
  • To cover with froth.
    • A horse froths his chain.

    Derived terms

    * frothy * froth at the mouth

    Anagrams

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    gurgle

    English

    Verb

  • To flow with a bubbling sound.
    • The bath water gurgled down the drain.
  • * Young
    • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  • To make such a sound.
    • The baby gurgled with delight.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gurgling sound.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

    Anagrams

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