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lather
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: l?.th'?, lä.th'?, IPA(key): /?læ.ð?(?)/, /?l??ð?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?læð?/
- Rhymes: -æð?(r), -??ð?(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English lather, from Old English l?aþor (“a kind of niter used for soap, soda”), from Proto-Germanic *lauþr? (“that which is used for washing, soap”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówh?trom (“that which is used for washing”), from *lewh?-, *lowh?- (“to wash, bathe”). Cognate with Swedish lödder (“lather, foam, froth, soap”), Icelandic löður (“foam, froth, a kind of niter used for soap”), Old Irish lóathar (“wash-basin”), Ancient Greek ??????? (loutrón, “a bath, wash-room”), Latin lav? (“I wash”), Albanian laj (“I wash”), Ancient Greek ???? (loú?). More at lye.
Noun
lather (countable and uncountable, plural lathers)
- (countable, uncountable) The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
- (countable, uncountable) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
- (countable) A state of agitation.
Derived terms
- in a lather
- lathery
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English *lethren, from Old English l?þrian, l?þrian, *l?eþrian (“to anoint, smear, lather”), from Old English l?aþor (“a kind of niter used for soap, soda”). See above.
Verb
lather (third-person singular simple present lathers, present participle lathering, simple past and past participle lathered)
- (transitive) To cover with lather.
- (transitive) To beat or whip.
- (intransitive) To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
Derived terms
- lather up
Translations
Anagrams
- Hartel, Hartle, Thrale, halter, rathel, thaler
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yeast
English
Etymology
From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ?ist, ?yst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian 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”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: y?st, IPA(key): /ji?st/
- (rare) IPA(key): /i?st/
- Rhymes: -i?st
Noun
yeast (countable and uncountable, plural yeasts)
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- leaven
- nutritional yeast
Verb
yeast (third-person singular simple present yeasts, present participle yeasting, simple past and past participle yeasted)
- To ferment.
- (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) To exaggerate
References
Anagrams
- Yates, Yeats, as yet, teasy, yates, yeats
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