Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with soapy lather.
- Covered with sweaty foam, as a horse.
- Resembling lather; figuratively, unsubstantial, like foam.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling or covered in
lather ,foamy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling lather or covered with lather
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Examples
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That gentleman called a lathery greeting from the bathroom where he was shaving.
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At the height of the spill in June, Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon stepped onto the beach of this seaside community and saw an apocalyptic scene: waves of lathery crude headed for his white sandy beaches.
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I told him I was, and wiped the lathery remnants from his face with a warm towel.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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I told him I was, and wiped the lathery remnants from his face with a warm towel.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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June 19th, 2006 at 8:16 pm frothy adjective 1. Consisting of or resembling foam: foamy, lathery, spumous, spumy, sudsy, yeasty.
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Stout brown arms were roped with curd, and wedding rings looked slippery things, and thumb-nails bordered with inveterate black, like broad beans ripe for planting, shone through a hubbub of snowy froth; while sluicing and wringing and rinsing went on over the bubbled and lathery turf; and every handy bush or stub, and every tump of wiry grass, was sheeted with white, like a ship in full sail, and shining in the sun-glare.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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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.
The Railway Children Edith 2003
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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.
The Railway Children Edith 2003
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This was a new idea, the product to be shown ready for what the accompanying copy called "fragrant, lathery, lovelier you" use, and I had the job of sketching it into half a dozen layouts, the bar of soap at a slightly different angle in each.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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He looked all white and lathery in a moment, and he grinned in a funny way up at
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope
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