The Only Use of
seethe
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.†
p. 59.8
Definition:
to be filled with intense but unexpressed emotion, especially anger; or to move in a restless, agitated way