Meaning of afroth | Babel Free
əˈfɹɒθDefinitions
Examples
“Fine the horses, with flying manes and tight lithe bodies, shoulders sweating, muscles rippling, mouths afroth.”
“Like⟳ an underwater detonation, the pool was afroth with flapping and splashing.”
“The charms of a blue-eyed chestnut-haired maiden in a turquoise muslin, with a brown boa, and a brown chip hat afroth with brown feathers, could not be gainsaid.”
“[…] Ebenezer Cooke […] who […] had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point.”
“Last⟳ Saturday, the day before the Oscars, when the entire fashion world was afroth about which starlet was planning to wear⟳ what the next night, a small item in The New York Times caught our eye.”
“The weighty editorial page of The Times of London doesn't make⟳ a habit of devoting thought to the travails of pop singers, whose exploits now more than ever keep⟳ the red-top British tabloids afroth.”
“Afroth with ambition, the new owners have⟳ already promised to win⟳ the Premier League, the Champions League and probably the Glenrothes by-election too.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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