Today's Word "yeasty"
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yeasty \YEE-stee\ (adjective) - 1 : Of, pertaining to, or resembling yeast. 2 : Not yet settled or formed; immature or incomplete. 3 : Marked by agitation or change. 4 : Frothy or trivial; frivolous. 5 : Full of vitality; exuberant.
"In that yeasty time in the mid-sixties when I went to work as a reporter in Paris, the world was about to pop." -- Raymond Sokolov, 'Why We Eat What We Eat'
Yeasty is from yeast, from Middle English yeest, from Old English gist.
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