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Definition of froth : 1. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
2. Light, unsubstantial matter.
3. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
4. To cause to foam.
5. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
6. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
7. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

Synonyms:

solid, coruscate, fiddle-faddle, small potatoes, small change, nonsense, spark, minutia, surface, scintillate, form bubbles, yeast, trivia, suds, triviality, frivolity, trifle, cream, sparkle, spume, frippery, important

boil, lather, effervescence, bubble, cloud, aerate, spray, balloon, foam, effervesce, fizz, surf

ferment, meerschaum, barm, spindrift, head, ebullition, carbonation, scum, fume, scud

Usage examples:

• Beat the yolks of two eggs until light, add a cupful of milk and beat hard for a few moments, then add the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. - "The Myrtle Reed Cook Book", Myrtle Reed.
• They contained nothing, as far as we examined, but a slimy bloody froth. - "Trial-of-Mary-Blandy", Roughead, William.
• When done, skim off all the fat and froth. - "The Book of Household Management", Mrs. Isabella Beeton.