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yeasty, a.|ˈjiːstɪ|
Also 7–9 yesty.
[f. yeast n. + -y1.]
1. Of, pertaining to, full of, covered with, like or resembling yeast.
1599Porter Angry Wom. Abington D j, His beard, Thats glewed together with his slauering droppes, Of yesty ale. 1600Marston, etc. Jack Drums Entert. i. (1601) A iij, Each..yeastie bowzing bench. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. Ind., Wks. 1856 I. 5 As slovenly as the yeasty breast of an ale-knight. 1676Cotton Walton's Angler ii. viii. 75 We have then [sc. in June] another Dunne, call'd the Barm-flie, from it's yesty colour. 1683Tryon Way to Health 25 That Yeasty quality that most Ale in Cities, especially in London, is subject unto. 1743Lond. & Country Brewer ii. (ed. 2) 84 He fell into Drinking such Quantities of their yeasty Ale, as made him distracted. 1836[see yeastiness below]. 1849Cupples Green Hand ii. (1856) 15 From foaming whiteness it melted into yesty green.
transf.1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xvi. 39 The Arterial, fermentative, or leavening, and yeasty Blood.
2. fig. with various connotations: ‘Swelling’, ‘working’; light and superficial, ‘frothy’.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 36 Like a Swartrutters hose his puffe thoughts swell With yeastie ambition. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 199 He..only got the tune of the time, and outward habite of encounter, a kinde of yesty collection, which carries them through & through the most fond and winnowed opinions. 1627Drayton Moon-calf in Agincourt etc. 161 Knowledge with him is idle, if it straine Aboue the compasse of his yestie braine. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. i, Byron's mind was like his own ocean, sublime in its yesty madness. 1904Athenæum 2 Apr. 425/2 Burying his thought in a yeasty mass of adjectives.
3. transf. Foamy, frothy, like troubled water.
1605Shakes. Macb. iv. i. 53 Though the yesty Waues Confound and swallow Nauigation vp. 1798Poetry of Anti-Jacobin No. 36. 236 And Whitbread wallowing in the yeasty main. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. (1819) 331 The yesty waves which confound the heaven and the sea. 1819Crabbe T. of Hall iv. 472 Far up the beach, the yesty sea-foam roll'd. 1820Byron Juan iii. lviii, The ocean when its yeasty war is waging Is awful. 1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 254 We were over the bar and in smooth water, only the yeasty flakes of the spent breakers following us.
Hence ˈyeastily adv., ˈyeastiness.
1778H. Brooke Antony & Cl. iv. iv, I know not why of late This yestiness of temper comes upon me. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 405/1 It [sc. creamy scum] however rises again, becomes yesty, the bladders enlarge in size, the yestiness increases, and, when ready for cleansing, it has a vigorous, rich, yesty brown and bladdery head. 1890W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. I. viii. 162 The pale blue brine that melted yeastily from her metalled forefoot. |