yeasty

From yeast +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjiːsti/
• Rhymes: -iːsti

yeasty (comparative yeastier, superlative yeastiest)

1. Having or resembling yeast.
2. Foamy and frothy.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.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.
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, 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