yesty

1. abbreviationuncountableAbbreviation of yesterday.

   Fritzie returned yesty A.M. & is feeling fine.

   1915 March 16, William A. Gardner, letter to "Duff"; quoted in Willamine A. Gardner Cook, chapter 7, in The W.A. Gardner story: his life, his family, the times and the town they lived in, 1956, page 184

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   Wild geese seen migrating towards ye S. to day and yesty.

   1784 December 10, Henry White, diary; quoted in Robert Hawley Clutterbuck, Notes on the parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Penton Mewsey, Weyhill and Wherwell in the county of Hampshire, 1898, page 15

   on moving up from Louverval the 10 Bn struck trouble (or rather, it ws on / night of 7/8 & early yesty morning).

   1917 April 9, Charles Bean, Diaries, March–April 1917, page 14

alternative yestie

1. AustraliacolloquialuncountableYesterday.

   I was at the waterworks yesty arvo and the reservoirs are suuuuper low.

   2023 February 23, u/roselou, “Wife is convinced water tastes “funny” at the moment specifically “earthy, like dirt”. Is she right?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2026

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   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

comparative yestier · superlative yestiest

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of yeasty (“foamy, frothy”).

   Though you vntye the Windes, and let them fight / Against the Churches: Though the yesty Waues / Confound and swallow Nauigation vp:

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]