different between frothy vs lathery

English

Etymology

froth +? -y

Pronunciation

Adjective

frothy (comparative frothier, superlative frothiest)

1. Foamy or churned to the point of becoming infused with bubbles.

2. (figuratively) lightweight; lacking depth or substance
   • 1827, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time

     The frothy orator, who busked his tales
     In quackish pomp of noisy words

Synonyms

• (with bubbles): foamy, spumescent; see also Thesaurus:effervescent

Translations

Noun

frothy (plural frothies)

1. (Australia, slang, chiefly in the plural) A serving of beer.

Translations

Anagrams

• for thy, forthy

English

Etymology

lather +? -y

Adjective

lathery (comparative more lathery, superlative most lathery)

1. Resembling or covered in lather.

   Synonyms: foamy, frothy

   This new shaving cream isn't as lathery as the old stuff: there just aren't as many bubbles to be had.

   • 1824, James Atkinson, “Peer Mahommud; The Moralist,” stanza 51, in The City of Palaces, Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, p. 128,^[1]

     Thus rapidly my little tale advances,

     And now we come to him, who lives to shave!

     The lathery Knight of Razors, not of lances,

     And without question more a fool than knave.

   • 1906, E. Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 7,^[2]

     “Oh, no!” said Bobbie, greatly shocked; “you don’t rub muslin. You put the boiled soap in the hot water and make it all frothy-lathery—and then you shake the muslin and squeeze it, ever so gently, and all the dirt comes out. […] ”

   • 1931, Langston Hughes, “People without Shoes” in I Wonder As I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, 1993, p. 28,^[3]

     They wash their clothes in running streams with lathery weeds—too poor to buy soap.

   • 1957, James Agee, A Death in the Family, New York: Bantam, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 26,^[4]

     He cleaned up the basin and flushed the lathery, hairy bits of toilet paper down the water closet.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hartley, earthly, hartely, hartley, heartly, hetaryl