Meanings
comparative more foam-flecked · superlative most foam-flecked
- Rabid; furious; fanatical.
Stephenson had already worked himself into something just short of a foam-flecked tirade by the time Will arrived.
2012, Ian Tregillis, Bitter Seeds2 more examples
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:
2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 558The stories were fabulous bubbles of outrage (prawn-cocktail flaboured crisps were never banned), but the foam-flecked hymns of hate were real.
2020, Fintan O'Toole, Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles
Origin
A reference to the way a rabid animal foams at the mouth.
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