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wroth | froth |

As an adjective wroth

is full of anger; wrathful.

As a noun froth is

foam.

As a verb froth is

to create froth in.

wroth

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of anger; wrathful.
  • *
  • But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth , and his countenance fell.
  • * 1793,
  • And to be wroth with one we love,
    Doth work like madness in the brain.
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
  • * 1936 , (Dale Carnegie), (How to Win Friends and Influence People) , Part 3, Chapter 4
  • Business men are learning that it pays to be friendly to strikers. For example, when two thousand five hundred employees in the White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, the president, didn't wax wroth and condemn, and threaten and talk of tyranny and Communists. He actually praised the strikers. He published an advertisement in the Cleveland papers, complimenting them on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools." [...]

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    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

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