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Yeasty vs Beasty - What's the difference?

yeasty | beasty |

As an adjective yeasty

is having or resembling yeast.

As a noun beasty is

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yeasty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having or resembling yeast.
  • 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 [...].
  • Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
  • Trivial.

    • Quotations

    ; trivial * 1602 : , 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

    See also

    * fermenting * leavened * yeast

    beasty

    English

    Noun

    (beasties)