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Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse froða (“foam”).
Pronunciation
Noun
froad (plural froads)
- (Northern Isles) Foam; froth.
1922, James Inskster, Mansie's Röd, page 97:
Verb
froad (third-person singular simple present froads, present participle froadin, simple past froadt, past participle froadt)
- (Northern Isles) To foam; to froth.
1922, James Inskster, Mansie's Röd, page 97:Whin we cam in Sibbie wis jüist set da kit wi' da kye's mylk apo da flüer. Hit wis warm an' froadin' apo' da tap.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
References
- Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 503
- “froad”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- Graham, John J (1979) “froad”, in The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, →ISBN