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fusty

English

Alternative forms

  • foosty (Scots)

Etymology

From Old French fust (“wood”) (modern French fût), from Latin fustis (“a cudgel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /f?sti/
  • Rhymes: -?sti

Adjective

fusty (comparative fustier, superlative fustiest)

  1. Moldy or musty.
  2. Stale-smelling or stuffy.
  3. (figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.
  4. (of wine) Tasting of the cask.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:fusty.

Derived terms

  • fustily
  • fustiness

Translations

Anagrams

  • yufts

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foisty

English

Etymology

From foist +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?f??st?/

Adjective

foisty (comparative more foisty, superlative most foisty)

  1. mouldy, musty, fusty
    • 2000, Samuel Bamford, Martin Hewitt, Robert Poole, The Diaries of Samuel Bamford, page 2:
      Papers 150 years old, mildewed, rotten and stinking like muck; and mouldy foisty old books dating from 1638.

References

  • “foisty”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

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