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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FROTH'Y, a.
1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles.
2. Soft; not firm or solid.
3. Vain; light; empty; unsubstantial; as a vain frothy speaker; a frothy harangue.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy]
2: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (frothier; -est) Date: 15th century 1. full of or consisting of froth 2. a. gaily frivolous or light in content or treatment ; insubstantial <a frothy comedy> b. made of light thin material • frothily adverb • frothiness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frothy Froth"y, a. [Compar. Frothier; superl. Frothiest.] 1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy. 2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. --Bacon. 3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. --Tillotson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(frothier, frothiest) A frothy liquid has lots of bubbles on its surface. ...frothy milk shakes. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Foamy, spumy. 2. Trifling, light, empty, trivial, vain, frivolous, unsubstantial.

Moby Thesaurus

airy, asinine, barmy, birdbrained, birdwitted, brave, bravura, braw, bubbly, catchpenny, chichi, daring, dashing, downy, dressy, empty, ethereal, exhibitionistic, fatuous, featherbrained, feathery, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flighty, flimsy, fluffy, foam-flecked, foamy, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frilly, frivolous, futile, gallant, gay, glittering, gossamery, heady, idle, imponderous, inane, jaunty, jazzy, lathery, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, mousse, nugacious, nugatory, otiose, rakish, shallow, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-witted, showy, silly, slender, slight, snazzy, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soapy, souffle, splashy, splurgy, sporty, spumose, spumous, spumy, suddy, sudsy, superficial, trifling, trite, trivial, unheavy, unprofound, vacuous, vain, vapid, volatile, weightless, windy, yeasty