afroth

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ froth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈfɹɒθ/

Adjective

afroth (not comparable)

1. Covered with froth, foam.
   • 1969, Robert Coover, Pricksongs & descants: fictions‎^[1], page 170:

     Fine the horses, with flying manes and tight lithe bodies, shoulders sweating, muscles rippling, mouths afroth.

   • 2005, Robin Cody, Ricochet River‎^[2], page 139:

     Like an underwater detonation, the pool was afroth with flapping and splashing.

2. (figuratively) Full of, or covered with something.
   • 1908 August 20, “Women in Print”, in Evening Post‎^[3], page 9:

     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.

   • 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor:

     […] 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.

3. (figuratively) Excited.
   • 2005 March 1, Lynn Jaeger, “Toxic Tank Tops, and Other Oscar Revelations”, in The Village Voice‎^[4], archived from the original on 23 October 2008:

     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.

   • 2008 January 26, Mitch Potter, “Times' editorial page calls for intervention to save Winehouse”, in TheStar.com‎^[5]:

     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.

   • 2008 September 3, Barney Ronay, “Can money buy success?”, in The Guardian‎^[6]:

     Afroth with ambition, the new owners have already promised to win the Premier League, the Champions League and probably the Glenrothes by-election too.