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foam-flecked

adj

Etymology

A reference to the way a rabid animal foams at the mouth.

Definitions

  1. Rabid

    Rabid; furious; fanatical.

    • Now the hostess became his mistress: his love letters were passionate, indiscreet, and hate-filled, featuring Briish military secrets and foam-flecked rants against Jews:
    • Stephenson had already worked himself into something just short of a foam-flecked tirade by the time Will arrived.
    • The stories were fabulous bubbles of outrage (prawn-cocktail flaboured crisps were never banned), but the foam-flecked hymns of hate were real.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see foam, flecked.; covered in flecks of foam.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA