frothy
pronunciation
How to pronounce frothy in British English:
UK [ˈfrɒθi]
How to pronounce frothy in American English:
US [ˈfrɔθi]
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- Adjective:
- emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
- relating to or containing gas bubbles
Word Origin
- frothy (adj.)
- 1530s, "full of foam," from froth + -y (2). Meaning "vain, light, insubstantial" is from 1590s. Related: Frothiness.
Example
- 1. But many of those jobs depended on a frothy construction industry .
- 2. General inflation and frothy real-estate markets remain risks , the central bank said .
- 3. Cheap money and negative real interest rates lead over time to frothy speculation and inflation .
- 4. For frothy land prices the calculations are pretty simple how fast are land prices rising compared to property prices ?
- 5. A frothy property market was one of the reasons for the reserve bank of australia raising interest rates six times between october and may .