froth

froth

englanti

1. vaahto

2. kuva|k=en kuoha

Synonyymisanakirja: froth

froth

1. partavaahto, kupla, vaahto, pintavaahto, saippuavaahto.

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Käännökset: froth

froth suomeksi

pintavaahto, vaahto, vaahdota

• vaahto

• hömppä colloquial, pintavaahto

• vaahdottaa

• vaahdota, kuplia

froth englanniksi

• foam

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• puhekieltä 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?

• puhekieltä To create froth in (a liquid).

• 1859, (w), (w), Book Two, Chapter 7, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/98-h/98-h.htm

One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.

I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.

• puhekieltä (of a liquid) To bubble.

• 1842, (w), “(w),” lines 21-4, http://www.bartleby.com/42/777.html

Colder and louder blew the wind,

A gale from the Northeast,

The snow fell hissing in the brine,

And the billows frothed like yeast.

• 1973, “Black Day in Brussels,” w:Time (magazine)|Time, 19 February, 1973, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,906874,00.html

English beer, along with European brews, is already the subject of an EEC investigation to determine whether additives like stabilizers (used to prevent frothing during shipment) should be allowed.

• puhekieltä To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

• 1690, (w), Don Sebastian, a Tragedy, Act I, Scene 1, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16402/16402-h/16402-h.htmpage_271

The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek.

He frets within, froths treason at his mouth,

And churns it thro’ his teeth (..)

• 1859, (w), “Merlin and Vivien” in (w), http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/610/pg610-images.html

(..) is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?

• puhekieltä (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.

• 1958, (w), (w) (1938), translated by (w), London: Secker and Warburg, Book XIII,

The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws,

opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone.

• 1962, “Riding Crime's Crest” in w:Time (magazine)|Time, 25 April, 1962, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,896267,00.html

As doctors tried in vain to save April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was “fiendish” (the Examiner), “sadistic” (the News-Call Bulletin), “probably a sexual psychopath” (the Chronicle).

• puhekieltä To cover with froth.

A horse froths his chain.

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