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单词 fusty
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fustyadj.

Brit. /ˈfʌsti/, U.S. /ˈfəsti/
Forms: Also 1500s fewsty; and see foisty adj.
Etymology: < fust n.1 2.
1. That has lost its freshness, stale-smelling, musty.
a. Of a wine-cask or vessel. Also of the wine: Tasting of the cask. Obsolete exc. dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty
fusty1398
musty1492
foisty1519
foistied1572
fusted1598
foughty1600
frowish1608
rafty1655
funkya1680
foisted1688
foist1691
frowsty1865
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [adjective] > having specific flavour > tasting of the cork or cask
enfumed1601
fusty1601
corkish1822
corked1830
corky1889
over-oaked1981
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xii. 57 Wyne and other licour takyth infeccion of a vessell that is fusty.
1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. D.iiij The wyne bottell is somwhat fusty.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xviii. 765 To restore againe into his former and sound estate the wine that is growne fat, fustie, and hath taken winde.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 152 To renue their wines, and make them seem fresh and new, after they haue by long lying gotten a fusty rotten tast.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Fusty, musty; fetid; stale: generally applied to malt liquors, or vessels containing them.
figurative.1645 J. Milton Colasterion 25 His farewell, which is to bee a concluding taste of his jabberment at [sic] in Law, the flashiest and the fustiest that ever corrupted in such an unswill'd hogshead.
b. Of bread, corn, meat, etc.: Smelling of mould or damp.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > stale, decaying, or infested
oldeOE
fustya1492
stale1530
overkept1837
overhung1895
skippery1899
off1913
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. i. f. vi/2 He founde brede..The whyche was not soo fayre, but fusty and spotted.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 33 Yf a feaste..had fewsty and noughty bread, all the other daynties shulde be vnsauery.
1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. ii. 59 Who had rather the corne should waxe fustie in their garners then to sell it out.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. i. 103 Hector shall haue a..knocke at either of your beains, a were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernell.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxv. 240 You must not presently mould up your meal after grinding..nor keep it too long lest it prove fusty.
1884 J. Bull's Neighb. in True Light xii. 88 He will take a piece of diseased horse or fusty beef, and make a ragoût that will cause you to smack your lips.
figurative.1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Num. ix. 11) 14 The old leven, that fusty, swelling, sowring, spreading corruption of nature and practice.
2. Of persons, places, etc.: Having an unpleasant, ‘close’, or ‘stuffy’ smell such as arises from dirt, dust, or damp.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty > of air or atmosphere
fustya1529
mustya1529
fat1598
frowzy1681
musty-smelling1852
musty-fusty1857
a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 128 Fusty bawdyas.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F4 Hang him fusty Satyre; he smells all Goate. View more context for this quotation
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. iv. 2233 Farewell musty, dusty, rusty, fusty London.
1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) iii. sig. X5 Ins are nasty, dusty, fustie.
1798 A. Seward Lett. (1811) V. 147 Old fusty stuff-beds.
1840 Countess Granville Let. Jan. (1894) II. 299 Intense heat in the mild, fusty weather.
1842 C. Dickens in J. Forster Life Dickens iii. 101 Dirty clothes-bags musty, moist and fusty.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. iv. 212 Stifling her with fusty sighs.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 71 A fusty old gown which had been about college probably for ten generations.
3.
a. figurative. That has lost its freshness and interest; bearing marks of age or neglect; of old-fashioned appearance or behaviour, ‘fogeyish’.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > resulting from neglect
rusty-dusty1558
fusty1609
musty-fusty1857
cobwebbed1905
sleazy1941
tatty1956
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc.
old-fashioned1596
musty1603
mildewed1605
fusty1609
wormy1611
frumpy1746
fossila1770
arriéré1814
has-been1819
Rip Van Winkleish1829
frumpish1847
archaistic1850
fogey1852
fogeyish1852
old fogeyish1853
rusty-fusty1864
mossbacked1876
dead-handed1928
Victorian1934
unhep1939
unhip1939
dinosaurian1943
square1946
dinosaur-like1947
dinosauric1977
analogue1993
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 161 At this fustie stuffe, The large Achilles..Laughes out alowd applause. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. B3v True is the Prouerbe, though fustie to fine wits.
1674 J. D. Mall i. i. 4 All pretty Ladies will shun thee for a fusty Husband.
1729 H. Carey in C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband (new ed.) Epil. 95 If I stay, 'till I grow grey, They'll call me old Maid, and fusty old Jade.
1744 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 249 Old fusty physicians, you know, are full of ceremony.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. x. x. 385 What could ever induce you to give up your charming estate for the sake of coming into his fusty old family!
1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 153 I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher; I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher.
1842 C. G. F. Gore Fascination 164 Létorière is too good a rider..to lose his time with fusty Latin and Greek.
1883 Good Words 24 183 The doctors say we get musty and fusty if we stay in one place.
b. ? Ill-humoured, peevish, dull. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective]
moodyc1300
distemprec1374
melancholiana1393
solein1399
darkc1440
gloomingc1440
girning1447
melancholyc1450
tetrical1528
tetric1533
distemperate1548
morose1565
sullen1570
stunt1581
humorous1590
gloomya1593
muddy1592
clum1599
dortya1605
humoursome1607
distempereda1616
musty1620
grum1640
agelastic1666
fusty1668
purdy1668
ill-humoured1693
gurly1721
mumpish1721
sunking1724
tetricous1727
sumphish1728
stunkard1737
sulky1744
muggard1746
farouche1765
sombrea1767
glumpy1780
glumpish1800
tiffy1810
splenitive1815
stuffy1825
liverish1828
troglodytish1866
glummy1884
humpy1889
scowly1951
1668 S. Pepys Diary 18 June (1976) IX. 244 My wife still in a melancholy fusty humour, and crying; and doth not tell me plainly what it is.
c. Used as n.: A ‘seedy’ person. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretch > [noun]
argha1275
mixa1300
caitiffc1325
crachouna1400
crathona1400
wretcheda1425
fouling?a1475
meschant1490
miscredent?a1500
ketterela1572
miscreant1590
scroyle1602
frummer1659
fustya1732
ramscallion1734
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun]
gadlinga1300
geggea1300
churlc1300
filec1300
jot1362
scoutc1380
beggara1400
carla1400
turnbroach14..
villainc1400
gnoffc1405
fellowc1425
cavelc1430
haskardc1487
hastardc1489
foumart1508
strummel?a1513
knapper1513
hogshead?1518
jockeya1529
dreng1535
sneakbill1546
Jack1548
rag1566
scald1575
huddle and twang1578
sneaksby1580
companion1581
lowling1581
besognier1584
patchcock1596
grill1597
sneaksbill1602
scum1607
turnspit1607
cocoloch1610
compeer1612
dust-worm1621
besonioa1625
world-worma1625
besognea1652
gippo1651
Jacky1653
mechanic1699
fustya1732
grub-worm1752
raff1778
person1782
rough scuff1816
spalpeen1817
bum1825
sculpin1834
soap-lock1840
tinka1843
'Arry1874
scruff1896
scruffo1959
a1732 J. Gay Distress'd Wife (1743) ii. v. 27 If Mr. Forward calls, I think—Yes—You may let him in... But, be sure you let in no Fusties.

Compounds

fusty framed, fusty-looking, fusty-rusty adjs.
ΚΠ
1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 4 After the finishinge of whose fustie framed speech.
1782 W. Cowper Let. 5 Jan. (1981) II. 4 But what shall we say of his [Johnson's] fusty rusty remarks upon Henry and Emma?
1876 M. M. Grant Sun-maid I. i. 6 A fusty-looking old personage with a large umbrella.

Derivatives

ˈfustily adv.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adverb] > fustily or mustily
mustilya1640
sappily1724
fustily1874
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 30 A student, and smells fustily of books, as an inveterate smoker does of tobacco.
ˈfustiness n. also (jocular nonce-words)
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fustiness
fustiness1526
mustiness1526
foistiness1576
frowziness1729
foist1819
funkiness1843
frowstiness1923
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness
staleness1552
surannation1656
superannuation1658
antiquation1659
fustinessa1661
antiquateness1664
antiquatedness1730
superannuity1781
innovelty1783
old-fashionedness1817
square-toedness1846
fossilism1861
obsolescence1887
old-timiness1887
frumpishness1889
old-fangledness1895
out-of-dateness1915
datedness1933
outdatedness1953
time warp1965
1526 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 218 Item, that the Brewers doe brew good and seasonable stuff without Weevell or Fustines.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 155 If any fustiness be found in his Writings, it comes not from the Grape, but from the Cask.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 169 'Tis not only the loss of those grains that actually grow, but a foulness and fustiness also.
1864 Realm 18 May 8 We have so long associated him [an actor] with Melter Moss, that rustiness and fustiness seemed a normal part of his being.
1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water 151 The one is fustiness, the other is skimpiness. In the former case..the air is rather difficult to breathe. Flue is everywhere.
ˈfusticate v. (transitive) to make fusty; intransitive, to stay in a close stuffy atmosphere.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink [verb (intransitive)] > become fusty or musty > be in fusty atmosphere
fusticate1839
1839 Blackwood's Mag. 46 734 When there was a sort of golden age..and shepherds had nothing to do but pipe..The country pipes now-a-days, are terribly fusticated with tobacco.
1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter iv. 102 ‘Are you going to stop—’ (I feel sure he meant ‘fusticating’, though he was too polite to say it) ‘in here all afternoon?’ he asked.
ˈfustified adj. = 3.
ΚΠ
1835 W. Beckford Recoll. Monasteries Alcobaça & Batalha 150 This most consequential of equerries..invited us..to screen ourselves from the meridian heats..Preceded by the right pompous and fustified equerry, we diverged from the mended track.
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