Definitions for lather

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lather lath·er

Spelling: [lath -er]

IPA: /ˈlæð ər/

Lather is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in lather (aehlrt).

Definitions for lather

noun

1. foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
2. foam or froth formed in profuse sweating, as on a horse.
3. Informal. a state of excitement, agitation, nervous tension, or the like:
4. a worker who puts up laths.

verb (used with object)

1. to apply lather to; cover with lather:
2. Informal. to beat or whip.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a lather:
2. to become covered with lather, as a horse.

Origin of lather

before 950; Middle English; Old English lēathor soap; cognate with Old Norse lauthr (Icelandic löthur) lather, foam

Examples for lather

That only makes more mysterious the lather he can work himself into whenever he talks about these issues on air today.

One of the first, UVeBand, tracks how well your sunscreen is performing—and pings you when its time to lather up again.

When Emil alighted at the Shabatas' gate, his horse was in a lather.

But is the press getting itself worked into a lather over what Barbour did and thought when he was a teenager?

The horse was not winded, but it trembled and reeked with sweat and lather.

As a boy, I watched my grandfather create a froth of lather in that cup, and shave himself with a straight razor.

Working the gossips of UrbanBaby into a lather is a low bar; losing them lower still.

It was a heart-tearing thing to see her run to the point of lather and then keep on.

You get up to soothe them and find them in a lather of sweat and scared to a tremble.

He was borne up the seas; he slid down the seas in a lather of white foam.