yeasty
[yee-stee]
- of, containing, or resembling yeast.
- frothy; foamy.
- youthful; exuberant; ebullient.
- trifling; frivolous.
- characterized by agitation, excitement, change, etc.: the yeasty years immediately following college.
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Origin of yeasty
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Related Words for yeasty
carbonated, sudsy, lathery, ebullient, effervescent, effusive, exuberant, yeasty, barmy, boiling, creamy, fizzy, frothy, simmering, spumous, fermented, scummy, seething, spumescent, bubblingExamples from the Web for yeasty
Contemporary Examples of yeasty
It is as yeasty as a dinner roll, and cut to form a pocket with closed ends that shore in all ingredients.
Historical Examples of yeasty
They are the dough, and they dislike that yeasty stuff of life which comes and works about in them.
The Island PhariseesJohn Galsworthy
What awakening, what striving with tears, what working of a yeasty conscience!
Introduction to Robert BrowningHiram Corson
We wheeled away to the right, and splashed into yeasty froth.
The Riddle of the SandsErskine Childers
The Nadine's rockets had burned away the yeasty soil when she came to ground.
Planet of DreadMurray Leinster
At length the head assumes a yeasty appearance, the colour becomes yellowish brown, and a vinous odour is developed.
yeasty
- of, resembling, or containing yeast
- fermenting or causing fermentation
- tasting of or like yeast
- insubstantial or frivolous
- restless, agitated, or unsettled
- covered with or containing froth or foam
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