different between rusty vs gusty

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???s.ti/

Etymology 1

From gust +? -y.

Adjective

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)

1. (of wind) Blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,

     The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,

     The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

     And the highwayman came riding—

     Riding—riding—

     The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

2. (by extension, metaphoric) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression
3. (metaphoric) Bombastic, verbose.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin gustus (“tasting”)

Adjective

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)

1. With gusto

Derived terms

• gustily
• gustiness

Anagrams

• gutsy

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?st? (“dense”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian husty, Polish g?sty, Czech hustý, Serbo-Croatian g?st, and Russian ??????? (gustój)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ust?/

Adjective

gusty (comparative gus?ejšy, superlative nejgus?ejšy, adverb gusto)

1. thick, dense

Declension

Further reading

• gusty in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• gusty in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.