froad

Scots edit

Alternative forms edit

froed, frood

Etymology edit

From Old Norse froða (“foam”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /froːd/

Noun edit

froad (plural froads)

(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 edit

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

(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 edit

froading

References edit

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.