yeasty

From yeast +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjiːsti/

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yeasty (comparative yeastier, superlative yeastiest)

1. Having or resembling yeast.
2. 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 [...].

3. Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
4. 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     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