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English
Etymology
From yeast + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
yeasty (comparative yeastier, superlative yeastiest)
- Having or resembling yeast.
- Foamy and frothy.
1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: Thomas Davison, , →OCLC, canto III, stanza 58:The Ocean when its yeasty war is waging / Is awful to the vessel near the rock [...].
- Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
- Trivial.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
know 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
having or resembling yeast
emotionally bubbling over
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