Complete Definition of "yeasty"

English

Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-i�sti|-i�sti

Adjective
yeasty

  1. having or resembling yeast.
  2. foamy and frothy.
  3. emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
  4. trivial

Quotations
;trivial
1602 : w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s:Hamlet|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

Interlingua: levaturose
Spanish: levaduroso, -a

See also
fermenting
leavened
yeast

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