yeastful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

yeast +‎ -ful

Adjective[edit]

yeastful (comparative more yeastful, superlative most yeastful)

  1. Synonym of yeasty.
    • 1946, “Inspirational Yeast”, in Kansas City Medical Journal, volume 22, page 3:
      Translate this yeastful sequence into the intangibles of mental processes and one can recognize the simple episode of attending a clinical conference, listening to the exposition of new facts of medical science and then ...
    • 1969, Joseph McVicker Hunt, The challenge of incompetence and poverty:
      Perhaps the yeastful and self-corrective dynamic of science has at last found its way into knowledge of persons and of personality development.
    • 1971, John Lehmann, Coming to London, page 82:
      Did I feel a yeast, or yeastful lumps, of words inside me ?
    • 1987, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness - Volume 54, page 493:
      They damn without hope of redemption alcoholic liquor in any shape or form from a yeastful brewage of heather tops to the spirituous spindrift distilled from grain and barley.
    • 1994, Josephine Couch Del Deo, Ross Moffett, Figures in a landscape, page 228:
      He fits, though uncomfortably perhaps, in these germinating years as a member of the yeastful mix of gifted artists which gravitated to Provincetown.
    • 2013, David Bardallis, Ann Arbor Beer: A Hoppy History of Tree Town Brewing:
      About the time the Greffs were finding their footing, he was back with a new business plan that combined his beery aspirations with another yeastful endeavor: breadmaking.