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Webster 1913 Edition
Yeasty
Yeast′y
,Adj.
Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.
Webster 1828 Edition
Yeasty
YEASTY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
yeasty
yeasty
English
Adjective
yeasty (comparative yeastier, superlative yeastiest)
- Having or resembling yeast.
- 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 [...].
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.58:
- Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
- 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
Translations
foamy and frothy
emotionally bubbling over
trivial