"froth at the mouth" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈfɹɒθ ət ðə ˈmaʊθ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfɹɔθ ət ðə ˈmaʊθ/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-froth at the mouth.ogg Forms: froths at the mouth [present, singular, third-person], frothing at the mouth [participle, present], frothed at the mouth [participle, past], frothed at the mouth [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} froth at the mouth (third-person singular simple present froths at the mouth, present participle frothing at the mouth, simple past and past participle frothed at the mouth)
  1. To spew saliva as froth. Synonyms: foam at the mouth, froth at the gash Translations (spew saliva as froth): ἀφρίζω (aphrízō) (Ancient Greek), 口吐白沫 (kǒutǔbáimò) (Chinese Mandarin), tulla vaahtoa suusta (Finnish), botar escuma pola boca (Galician), habzik a szája (Hungarian), tugga fradga (Swedish), fradga (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-froth_at_the_mouth-en-verb--ys1mRjy Disambiguation of 'spew saliva as froth': 99 1
  2. (figurative) To rage, to vent one's anger. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Anger Translations (rage): 大發雷霆 (Chinese Mandarin), 大发雷霆 (dàfāléitíng) (Chinese Mandarin), vaahdota (Finnish), écumer de rage (French), fulminer (French), rabiar (Galician), tajtékzik (mérgében/a dühtől) (Hungarian), kua puhipuhi te tero o Tāwhiri [slang] (Maori), mieć pianę na ustach [imperfective] (Polish), с пе́ной у рта (s pénoj u rta) (Russian), echar espumarajos por la boca (Spanish), tugga fradga (Swedish), fradga (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-froth_at_the_mouth-en-verb-FPzHbpc4 Disambiguation of Anger: 1 99 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 71 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 21 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of 'rage': 2 98

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.