lathery

comparative more lathery · superlative most lathery

1. Resembling or covered in lather.

   This new shaving cream isn't as lathery as the old stuff: there just aren't as many bubbles to be had.

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   1824, James Atkinson, “Peer Mahommud; The Moralist,” stanza 51, in The City of Palaces, Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, p. 128, Thus rapidly my little tale advances, And now we come to him, who lives to shave! The lathery Knight of Razors, not of lances, And without question more a fool than knave.

   “Oh, no!” said Bobbie, greatly shocked; “you don’t rub muslin. You put the boiled soap in the hot water and make it all frothy-lathery—and then you shake the muslin and squeeze it, ever so gently, and all the dirt comes out. […]”

   1906, E. Nesbit, chapter 7, in The Railway Children

   They wash their clothes in running streams with lathery weeds—too poor to buy soap.

   1931, Langston Hughes, “People without Shoes”, in I Wonder As I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, published 1993, page 28

   He cleaned up the basin and flushed the lathery, hairy bits of toilet paper down the water closet.

   1957, James Agee, A Death in the Family, New York: Bantam, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 26

   Synonyms: foamy, frothy