different between sparkling vs lathery

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sp??kl???/, /?sp??kl??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sp??kl???/, /?sp??kl??/
• Hyphenation: spark?ling

Verb

sparkling

1. Present participle and gerund of sparkle.

Adjective

sparkling (not comparable)

1. Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.
2. Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
3. (figuratively) Brilliant and vivacious.

Synonyms

• (of an object, reflecting light): glistening, twinkling
• (of a beverage): fizzy, carbonated; see also Thesaurus:effervescent

Antonyms

• (of a beverage): noncarbonated, still; see also Thesaurus:noneffervescent

Translations

Noun

sparkling (plural sparklings)

1. Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
   • 1820, Nathaniel John Hollingsworth, The Renegade and Other Poems, "Song"

     Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.

2. A sparkling wine.
   • 2011, Michael Cooper, 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines (page 208)

     Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould.

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