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Webster 1913 Edition


Yeasty

Yeast′y

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Adj.
Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

Webster 1828 Edition


Yeasty

YEASTY

,
Adj.
Frothy; foamy; spumy; like yeast.

Definition 2024


yeasty

yeasty

English

Adjective

yeasty (comparative yeastier, superlative yeastiest)

  1. Having or resembling yeast.
  2. Foamy and frothy.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.58:
      The Ocean when its yeasty war is waging / Is awful to the vessel near the rock [...].
  3. Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
  4. Trivial.

Quotations

trivial
  • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet , act V scene 2
    Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
    now the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the
    time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of
    yeasty collection, which carries them through and
    through the most profane and winnowed opinions

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