Meaning of froth up | Babel Free

Definitions

To become frothy; to rise with a frothy surface or covered with something resembling froth.

intransitive

Examples

“The Spirit mourn'd "Adieu!"—dissolv’d, and left / The atom darkness in a slow turmoil; / As when of healthful midnight sleep bereft, / Thinking on rugged hours and fruitless toil, / We put our eyes into a pillowy cleft, / And see the spangly gloom froth up and boil: / It made sad Isabella’s eyelids ache, / And in the dawn she started up awake; [...]”

“‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail.”

“As I passed along the edge of the meadow the cow-parsnip was as tall as I, frothing up to the top of the hedge, putting the faded hawthorn to a wan blush.”

“It was “soperlallie”, or soap berry. It grows in the woods; when you beat the berry it froths up and has a queer bitter taste.”

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