froth

Meanings

Noun

• foam
• unimportant events or actions; drivel

Verb

• To create froth in (a liquid).
• (of a liquid) To bubble.
• To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
• (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
• To cover with froth.

Origin

• From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century.