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yeastiness

/yee-stee/US // ˈyi sti //UK // (ˈjiːstɪ) //

酵母味,酵母性,酵素度,酵素性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    yeast·i·er, yeast·i·est.

    • : of, containing, or resembling yeast.
    • : frothy; foamy.
    • : youthful; exuberant; ebullient.
    • : trifling; frivolous.
    • : characterized by agitation, excitement, change, etc.: the yeasty years immediately following college.

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Examples

  • It is as yeasty as a dinner roll, and cut to form a pocket with closed ends that shore in all ingredients.

  • As far as eye could reach, the sea was white; ten leagues of yeasty water filled the horizon.

  • At the bottom it was almost dark, so that the stream would hardly have been visible but for its yeasty foam.

  • But Bradish clung to the gunwale of the long-boat and stared out at the yeasty waves, blinking his eyes.

  • At last, near the horizon's rim, he spied a yeasty tumult of the sea, marking some obstruction at which the waves were tussling.

  • Something mushy and heavily soft like raised dough leaned against Jim's leg and chewed his trousers with a yeasty growl.