different between rusty vs corroded

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sti/
• Rhymes: -?sti

Etymology 1

From Middle English rusty, from Old English r?sti? (“rusty”), from Proto-Germanic *rustagaz (“rusty”), equivalent to rust +? -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian rusterch (“rusty”), West Frisian rustich, roastich (“rusty”), Dutch roestig (“rusty”), German Low German rusterig, rüsterig (“rusty”), German rostig (“rusty”), Swedish rostig (“rusty”).

Adjective

rusty (comparative rustier, superlative rustiest)

1. Marked or corroded by rust. [from 9th c.]
2. Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. [from 14th c.]
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIV:

     Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

3. Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity. [from 16th c.]
4. (now chiefly historical) Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby. [from 17th c.]
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.

5. Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.

Derived terms

• ride rusty
• rusty nail
• Rusty (nickname)
• turn rusty

Translations

Etymology 2

Variant form of resty; compare also reasty.

Adjective

rusty (comparative more rusty, superlative most rusty)

1. Discolored and rancid; reasty. [from 16th c.]

Anagrams

• Tyrus, yurts

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ruste, rousty, rosty, ruisty
• rusti?e (early)

Etymology

From Old English r?sti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rusti?/, /?ru?sti?/

Adjective

rusty

1. rusted

Descendants

• English: rusty
• Yola: roostha

References

• “r??st?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Adjective

corroded (comparative more corroded, superlative most corroded)

1. Damaged by corrosion.

Verb

corroded

1. simple past tense and past participle of corrode