That has lost its freshness, stale-smelling, musty. Of a wine-cask or vessel. Also of the wine: Tasting of the cask. Obsolete exc. dialect.

Of food or drink: having a mouldy or decayed smell or taste; tainted with mould. Of a cask, bottle, or similar container: stale-smelling, fusty.

Fusty, musty, mouldy. literal and figurative.

= fusty, adj. 1.

Musty.

Frowzy, stale-smelling, fetid.

Of a place or time, or of the weather: damp and cold, bleak.

Having a strong or offensive smell; esp. (a) smelling of sweat or other bodily excretions; musky, pungent, rank; (b) (of food or drink) having a…

musty.

Fusty.

Fusty; having an unpleasant smell. (In Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, and Gloucestershire glossaries.) Also in combinations.