Seethe vs Froth - What's the difference?
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(label) To boil.
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*:A none syr kay sayd / here is good mete for vs for one meale / for we had not many a day no good repast / And so that veneson was rosted baken and soden / and so after souper somme abode there al that nyghte
*1933 , Herbert Danby, The Mishnah , p.289:
*:When he had cooked or seethed the Peace-offering, the priest took the sodden shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite and waved them.
*1960 , James Enge, Travellers' Rest :
*:“Seethe some of that in Gar Vindisc's good water and bring it to us. Bread, too, as long as you don't make it from shellbacks.”
To boil vigorously.
To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
To be in an agitated or angry mental state, as if boiling.
To buzz with activity.
foam
(figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel
* L'Estrange
To create froth in.
To bubble.
To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
* Dryden
* Tennyson
To cover with froth.
Seethe is a related term of froth.
As verbs the difference between seethe and froth
is that seethe is (label) to boil while froth is to create froth in.As a noun froth is
foam.seethe
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
froth
English
Noun
- Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
- 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 wormVerb
(en verb)- I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
- The chemical frothed up when I added the acid.
- He froths treason at his mouth.
- Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
- A horse froths his chain.
