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noun

1. A mass of bubbles in or on the surface of a liquid: foam, head, lather, spume, suds, yeast. See solid/liquid/consistency.
2. Something or things that are unimportant: fiddle-faddle, frippery, frivolity, minutia, nonsense, small change, small potatoes, trifle, trivia, triviality. See important/unimportant, surface/depth.

verb

To form or cause to form foam: bubble, cream, effervesce, fizz, foam, lather, spume, suds, yeast. See solid/liquid/consistency.

Market conditions preceding an actual market bubble where asset prices become detached from their underlying intrinsic values as demand for those assets drives their prices to unsustainable levels. Market froth marks the beginning of unsustainable rates of asset price inflation.

Investopedia Says:
An interesting example of a frothy market was Holland's tulip bulb market in the early 1600s. The market for tulip bulbs went through a huge run up and crash. 

People mortgaged whatever they could to raise cash to trade tulip bulbs. In 1633, a farmhouse changed hands for three tulip bulbs. The market top came in the winter of 1636-37 when a single tulip bulb, left along with 70 other tulip bulbs as seven orphans' only inheritance, sold for 5,200 guilders. Soon after the top, tulip bulbs traded for 1/100 of what they had two weeks earlier.

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n. a beer.  How about another pitcher of frost, innkeeper?

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For a list of words related to froth, see:

• Foolishness, Bunkum, and Trifles

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  See crossword solutions for the clue Froth.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - skum, fråde
v. tr. - skumme, udspy
v. intr. - fråde

Nederlands (Dutch)
schuimen, doen schuimen, schuimbekken, bedekken/bedekt worden met schuim, uiten, schuim, schuimig kwijl, iets oppervlakkigs

Français (French)
n. - écume, mousse, couche de mousse, (fig) futilités
v. tr. - écumer, mousser
v. intr. - écumer, mousser, moutonner (vagues), (fig) écumer ou baver de rage

Deutsch (German)
v. - schäumen
n. - Schaum, Tand, Nichtigkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - αφρίζω
n. - αφρός, ανοησίες, κούφια λόγια, κολάρο (στη μπίρα)

Italiano (Italian)
spumeggiare, schiuma

Português (Portuguese)
v. - espumar
n. - espuma (f) (geralmente na parte superior de um líquido)

Русский (Russian)
пена, пениться, болтовня, чепуха

Español (Spanish)
n. - espumarajos, espuma
v. tr. - producir espuma en , cubrir de espuma
v. intr. - espumar, hacer espuma, echar espumarajos

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - skumma
n. - fradga

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
泡, 琐物, 泡沫, 使生泡沫, 发泡, 吹泡

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 泡, 瑣物, 泡沫
v. tr. - 使生泡沫
v. intr. - 發泡, 吹泡

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 거품, 실체가 없는 것
v. tr. - 거품으로 뒤덮이다, 거품을 일게 하다
v. intr. - 거품을 내다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 泡, 内容のないもの, 無駄話
v. - 泡立たせる, 泡だらけにする, 泡を吹く, 泡立つ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يزبد , يرغي (الاسم) رغوة , تافه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רעיון-רוח, הבלים, קצף‬
v. tr. - ‮גרם להיווצרות קצף, רעיון-רוח, הבלים, קצף‬
v. intr. - ‮העלה קצף‬

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