froad

Scots

Alternative forms

• froed, frood

Etymology

From Old Norse froða (“foam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /froːd/

Noun

froad (plural froads)

1. (Orkney, Shetland) Foam; froth.
   • 1922, James Inskster, Mansie's Röd, page 97:

     He rubbid da froad o' da mylk aff o' his matash.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Verb

froad (third-person singular simple present froads, present participle froadin, simple past froadt, past participle froadt)

1. (Orkney, Shetland) 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

• froading

References

• Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 503
• “froad” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “froad” in John J Graham, The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1979, →ISBN.