- a white mass of small bubbles that is produced by mixing soap with water
- to work up a good lather
Word OriginOld English læthor (denoting washing soda or its froth), lēthran (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse lauthr (noun), from an Indo-European root shared by Greek loutron ‘bath’.
Idioms
See lather in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryget into a lather | work yourself into a lather
- (informal) to get anxious or angry about something, especially when it is not necessary
- Calm down—don’t work yourself into a lather about it.
in a lather
- (British English, informal) in a nervous, angry or excited state synonym worked up
- Dad was in a right lather about something.
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