foam-flecked

adjective

Rabid; furious; fanatical.

Meanings

adjectivefoam-flecked (comparative more foam-flecked, superlative most foam-flecked)

comparative more foam-flecked · superlative most foam-flecked

  1. 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 Seeds
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    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 558

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

Origin

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

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