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Yeasty

//ˈjiːsti// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having or resembling yeast.
  2. 2
    Foamy and frothy.

    "The Ocean when its yeasty war is waging / Is awful to the vessel near the rock [...]."

  3. 3
    Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
  4. 4
    Trivial.

    "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"

Adjective
  1. 1
    exuberantly creative wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by spirited enjoyment wordnet
  3. 3
    of or resembling or containing yeast wordnet

Etymology

From yeast + -y.

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