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Synonyms for yeasty


Grammar : Adj
Spell : yee-stee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈyi sti

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Définition of yeasty

Origin :
  • 1590s, from yeast + -y (2).
  • As in bubbling : adj fizzy
  • As in lathery : adj foamy
  • As in spumous : adj foamy
  • As in spumy : adj foamy
  • As in sudsy : adj foamy
  • As in foamy : adj bubbly
  • As in frothy : adj bubbly
Example sentences :
  • They are the dough, and they dislike that yeasty stuff of life which comes and works about in them.
  • Extract from : « The Island Pharisees » by John Galsworthy
  • What awakening, what striving with tears, what working of a yeasty conscience!
  • Extract from : « Introduction to Robert Browning » by Hiram Corson
  • We wheeled away to the right, and splashed into yeasty froth.
  • Extract from : « The Riddle of the Sands » by Erskine Childers
  • The Nadine's rockets had burned away the yeasty soil when she came to ground.
  • Extract from : « Planet of Dread » by Murray Leinster
  • At length the head assumes a yeasty appearance, the colour becomes yellowish brown, and a vinous odour is developed.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • Presently we were at its edge, one long whirl of yeasty falls and brown rapids.
  • Extract from : « Greenmantle » by John Buchan
  • Up to twenty a boy's years were kind of yeasty and uncertain, and if he was any way self-headed he ought to be left to run.
  • Extract from : « The Wrong Twin » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • In fact, he was so winded that he hardly knew when he dipped his blade in the yeasty water, or drew it quaveringly toward him.
  • Extract from : « The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio » by Harrison Adams
  • But Bradish clung to the gunwale of the long-boat and stared out at the yeasty waves, blinking his eyes.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
  • At last, near the horizon's rim, he spied a yeasty tumult of the sea, marking some obstruction at which the waves were tussling.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day

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