单词 | fusty |
释义 | fustyadj. 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. b. Of bread, corn, meat, etc.: Smelling of mould or damp. ΘΚΠ 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. 2. Of persons, places, etc.: Having an unpleasant, ‘close’, or ‘stuffy’ smell such as arises from dirt, dust, or damp. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1398 |
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