Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Foam. · Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel. · The idle rich. · Highly speculative investment.
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.
From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.
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