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Word: yeast (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
  • An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
  • A type of single-celled fungus.
  • figuratively A frothy foam.

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Verb:

  • slang To exaggeratehttp://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Yeasting&offset=0

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