frothy
Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles.
Adjective
- Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles.
- I like my milkshakes frothy, not flat like this!
- When this brown head was obtained the juice was drawn off into barrels, the lees were left in the keeve, and new juice was pumped upon these lees, this, however, produced a white frothy head, similar to that in the...
- The motion of this liquid layer was made visible by the small , frothy bubbles of vapor which were present in the film. - 1964, John Henry Vohr, A Photographic Study of Boiling Flow, page 113:
- lightweight; lacking depth or substance
- songs with frothy lyrics
- a frothy argument
- I cannot describe to you what pain I feel in repeating this light and frothy conversation, but I have compelled myself to give it you at some length, in order to lay before you, in its true light, the weakness of that...
- Highly speculative; having high risk and high return.
- But we have found it profitable to engage in some trading on our own account, generally in the rather frothy areas. - 1974, Australia. Parliament, Parliamentary Papers, page 297:
- First, many of the welfare gains of the previous two decades or more turned out to have been illusory, as house and share prices tumbled, jobs disappeared and frothy investment opportunities collapsed. - 2010, Bill...
- In such a “frothy” market, investors' interests would generally have been served by selling rather than purchasing assets—and, in fact, by returning committed capital to investors rather than deploying it, since...
Origin
Etymology tree English froth Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English frothy From froth + -y.
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Noun
- A serving of beer.