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