Yeasty means smelling of dough rising. A yeasty smell, yeasty and warm.
It is a compliment in a bakery and a fault in most wine. The smell is the yeast working rather than the finished bread, which is why it belongs to the kitchen at a particular hour.
1adjectiveyeastySmelling of dough rising.
“The whole kitchen was yeasty by the middle of the morning.”
yeasty is a smell.
Proto-Germanic
*jestuz
Proto-West Germanic
*jestu
Old English
ġist
Middle English
yest
English
yeast
English, today
yeasty
From yeast + -y. yeast comes from Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic jestu, from Proto-Germanic jestuz. Cognate with stq Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA