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yesty

/ˈjɛsti/

yesty is the abbreviation of yesterday.

yesty is the obsolete spelling of yeasty.

Meaning of yesterday

Noun

yesterday (plural yesterdays)

  1. The day immediately before today; one day ago.
    • Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.
  2. (figuratively) The past, often in terms of being outdated.
    • yesterday's technology

See all 4 meanings of yesterday

Meaning of yeasty

Adjective

yeasty (comparative yeastier, superlative yeastiest)

  1. Having or resembling yeast.
  2. Foamy and frothy.
    • The Ocean when its yeasty war is waging / Is awful to the vessel near the rock [...].1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto III, stanza 58
  3. Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
  4. Trivial.
    • Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
      know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the
      time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of
      yeasty collection, which carries them through and
      through the most profane and winnowed opinionsc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Noun

yesty (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) Yesterday.
    • Pretty sad when you can recall rifle numbers and such but can't remember what I had for brekkie yesty.2008 April 19, Wagga Screw, “range shoot f88 in sunny vic in winter”, in Gunboards, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2026
    • “Should’ve been here yesty” say’s the bloke at the news agency when asked about the swell.2010 February 16, Spence J, “Gold Dust – From the streets and points of Coolangatta”, in Tracks, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2026

Forms of yesty

Noun
alternative formyestie
Adjective
comparativeyestier
superlativeyestiest

Origin of yesty

Clipping of yesterday + -y.

Questions about yesty

What does yesty mean?
Yesty means yesterday.
What is yesty the abbreviation of?
Yesty is the abbreviation of yesterday.
What part of speech is yesty?
Yesty is a noun.
How do you pronounce yesty?
Yesty is pronounced /ˈjɛsti/.

Words near yesty in the dictionary

  1. yestier
  2. yestiest
  3. yestreen
  4. yestreens
  5. yests
  6. yesty
  7. Yesvember
  8. yeswoman
  9. yeswomen
  10. yet
  11. yet again

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yesty (page history and authors); yesterday (page history and authors); yeasty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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