different between fust vs oust

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French fust (“wood; bole, tree trunk”) (modern French fût), from Latin f?stis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to hit”) or *g??en- (“to strike; to kill, slay”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /f?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

fust (plural fusts)

1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.
2. (architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.

Derived terms

• fusted (adjective)
• fustily
• fustiness
• fusty

Related terms

• fuster
• fustian
• fustigate
• fustigation

Verb

fust (third-person singular simple present fusts, present participle fusting, simple past and past participle fusted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.
2. (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.

Etymology 2

Possibly from Portuguese fusta (“fust”), from Latin fusta (“beam (of wood)”), from f?stis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”); compare Middle French fuste.

Noun

fust (plural fusts)

1. (nautical, historical) A type of small galley.

Translations

Etymology 3

Adjective

fust (not comparable)

1. Nonstandard form of first.

Adverb

fust (not comparable)

1. Nonstandard form of first.
   • 1876, Evening Hours (page 629)

     She'd drink the gin fust and give him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try it on.

Anagrams

• STFU, UTFs

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

fust n (plural fusten, diminutive fustje n)

1. cask (e.g. containing beer)

Middle French

Alternative forms

• fut

Verb

fust

1. third-person singular past historic of estre

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

fust

1. neuter of fus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

fust

1. neuter of fus

Old French

Etymology 1

see estre.

Alternative forms

• fu
• fut
• fud (early Old French)

Verb

fust

1. third-person singular past historic of estre

Descendants

• French: fut

Etymology 2

From Latin fustis.

Noun

fust m (oblique plural fuz or futz, nominative singular fuz or futz, nominative plural fust)

1. wood (material from a plant)
2. wooden beam or plank
3. bole (part of a tree trunk)
4. club (weapon)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *f?sti.

Noun

f?st f

1. fist

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: f?st, v?st, voust
  • Cimbrian: bòista
  • German: Faust
  • Hunsrik: Faust
  • Luxembourgish: Fauscht
  • Yiddish: ??????? (foyst)

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ouster, oustier, from Old French oster (modern French ôter), from post-classical Latin obstare (“to remove”), classical obst?re (“to obstruct, stand in the way of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a?st/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -a?st

Verb

oust (third-person singular simple present ousts, present participle ousting, simple past and past participle ousted)

1. (transitive) To expel; to remove.

   The protesters became so noisy that they were finally ousted from the meeting.

Synonyms

• banish, dismiss, eject, exclude; see also Thesaurus:kick out

Antonyms

• accept, harbor, shelter

Derived terms

• oustee
• ouster

Translations

Anagrams

• Otsu, SOTU, Tsou, otsu, outs, sout, tOSU