froth

/frɔθ/

/frɒθ/

Other forms: frothing; frothed; froths

Froth is the gathering of small bubbles at the top of a drink, like the fizzy froth on the top of your root beer float.

There's usually froth on the surface of soda, beer, and even coffee drinks like cappuccinos and lattes, which are topped with milk froth. You can use the word froth as a verb as well, to mean "fizz or foam up." Liquid soap might froth in your hands as you wash them, for example, and making candy sometimes involves cooking sugar syrup until it starts to froth. The word most likely comes from an Old Norse root, froða, or "froth."

Definitions of froth

1. noun

   a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
   synonyms: foam

   types:

   shaving foam

   toiletry consisting of a liquid preparation containing many small bubbles that soften the beard before shaving

   head

   the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container

   lather

   the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse)

   lather, soapsuds, suds

   the froth produced by soaps or detergents

   spume

   foam or froth on the sea

   white water, whitewater

   frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls

   shaving cream, shaving soap

   toiletry consisting of a preparation of soap and fatty acids that forms a rich lather for softening the beard before shaving

   type of:

   bubble

   a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
2. verb

   become bubbly or frothy or foaming
   “The boiling soup was frothing”

   synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle

   types:

   lather

   form a lather

   seethe

   foam as if boiling

   type of:

   bubble

   form, produce, or emit bubbles
3. verb

   exude or expel foam
   “the angry man was frothing at the mouth”

   types:

   lather

   exude sweat or lather

   type of:

   exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out, transude

   release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
4. verb

   make froth or foam and become bubbly
   synonyms: spume, suds

   type of:

   create, make

   make or cause to be or to become