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单词 musty
释义

† mustyn.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: musty adj.2
Etymology: < musty adj.2
Obsolete. rare.
A kind of snuff having a musty flavour.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > types of
high-dried1681
Spanish1681
roderigo1692
bergamot1701
musty1709
myrtle1715
Portuguesea1721
rappee?1726
Scotch1739
macoubac1740
blackguard1782
Irish1806
Lundyfoot1811
prince's mixture1813
cephalic1828
taddy1869
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 27. ⁋11 I'll call at Charles's, and know the Shape of his Snuff-Box... I ought to be informed, whether he takes Spanish or Musty.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 79. ⁋3 I made her resign her snuff-box for ever, and half drown herself with washing away the stench of the musty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

† mustyadj.1

Forms: see must n.1 and -y suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: must n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < must n.1 + -y suffix1.
Obsolete. rare.
Of or relating to must or new wine; made with must; (of wine or beer) not yet fermented, in a state of newness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [adjective] > matured or fermented > not
greeneOE
musty?1440
must1559
mustulent1592
aiglent1623
infermented1732
stummy1770
mute1801
fiery-new1842
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 525 (MED) A galoun muste from vnder feet do to A stryk flour of newe whete, and..vse this ferment ffor musty breed.
1509 tr. A. de la Sale Fyftene Ioyes of Maryage (de Worde) (new ed.) v. sig. E v A drynker good whiche hath a feruent thyrste..drynketh small and musty wynes fyrste.
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Mostóso Mustie, of sweet wine.
1600 N. Breton Pasqvils Prognostication in Pasqvils Passe 34 When..beefe keepe sweete that hath no salt, And Beere is brewed with musty Malt, Then do beleeue that truth will trie.
1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. viii. 32 New musty liquors remain at least equally strong for a time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

mustyadj.2

Brit. /ˈmʌsti/, U.S. /ˈməsti/
Forms: late Middle English– musty, 1500s mustye, 1500s–1600s mustie, 1600s mustey.
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; compare the related must v.2 and must n.4 Probably related to moisty adj. and moist adj. (compare sense 1b), although the nature of the relationship is not clear: perhaps < Anglo-Norman muste, moste, variants of moiste, muiste moist adj. (compare also French regional forms in sense ‘mouldy’: see Französisches Etymol. Wörterbuch s.v. mūcĭdus); or perhaps < one of its Romance cognates: compare Old Occitan moste (13th cent.; Occitan moste , mosti , Occitan regional (Gascon) musti , all in sense ‘wet, damp’), Spanish mustio wilting, discouraged (1250), Spanish (Galician) murcho , mucho withered, faded, sad, discouraged, Catalan musti faded, wilted, sad, discouraged (late 14th cent.), Portuguese murcho withered, faded, sad, discouraged; or perhaps a variant of moisty adj. (perhaps by association with must n.1; compare musty adj.1). On semantic grounds at least, perhaps compare also Middle French, French moisir and its past participle moisi mouldy, musty (ultimately < a variant of classical Latin mūcēre : see mucor n.), with which Palsgrave equates the word (see quot. 1530 at sense 1a).
1.
a. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > rank or rancid
restya1325
rest1381
rammishc1395
areast1440
reested?c1475
reesed1486
musty1492
rusty?1521
turned1548
reasty1573
froughy1579
flatten1594
reasy1598
rammy1607
rancid1627
loud1641
ranked1648
virous1661
ranciduous1688
raftya1722
virose1756
reeky1854
loud-flavoured1866
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty
fusty1398
musty1492
foisty1519
foistied1572
fusted1598
foughty1600
frowish1608
rafty1655
funkya1680
foisted1688
foist1691
frowsty1865
1492 J. Ryman Poems lxx, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1892) 89 239 Oure brede was browne, oure ale was thynne; Oure brede was musty in the bynne.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 319/1 Mustye as a vessel is or wyne or any other vitayle, moysy.
1577 Patent Roll 19 Eliz. ix Corrupte and mustie butter.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor i. ii. sig. Dv He looks like a mustie Bottle. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 48 You had musty vittaile.
1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 233 If you have a musty Vessel, and by consequence dislike the Beer which comes out of it.
1734 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. ii. 66 Nor lets, like Nævius, ev'ry error pass, The musty wine, foul cloth, or greasy glass.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 141 This Venison is musty.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 479 In cleansing musty casks.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 6/3 Musty barrels can be cleaned and rendered sweet by putting in them a pint of unslacked lime, adding one or two gallons of water, and shaking thoroughly.
1891 Daily News 5 Mar. 7/2 The puddings were occasionally made with sour milk and musty eggs.
1967 A. Sexton Live or Die 45 The wine itself is pitch-colored, musty and secret.
1991 Wine & Spirits Apr. 58/1 A musty quality in all three bottles tasted caused some judges to call this wine corky.
b. More generally: spoiled with moisture; damp, mouldy, mildewed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > mouldy or musty
fennyc1000
vinnyOE
mouleda1250
moulya1398
mouldena1400
spaked1438
vinniedc1450
mouldy1495
hoared1496
mustyc1503
foisty1519
mocha1522
hoary1530
hoar1544
mouldeda1552
mowsy1566
foistied1572
fustied1576
spaky1590
musted1632
mouldish1648
emucid1656
mucid1656
mungy1658
mouldly1678
foisted1688
mothery1697
vinnewya1722
rusty-fustya1790
musty-fusty1857
mucidous1866
blue-vinnied1880
blue-veined1898
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > musty or mouldy
fennyc1000
vinnyOE
mouleda1250
moulya1398
mouldena1400
spaked1438
vinniedc1450
mouldy1495
hoared1496
mustyc1503
foisty1519
hoary1530
moskin1531
hoar1544
mouldeda1552
foistied1572
mustied1572
fustied1576
spaky1590
mildewed1605
musted1632
mucid1656
mungy1658
foisted1688
vinnewya1722
mochy1825
musty-smelling1852
musty-fusty1857
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xlvijv/2 The said peper is so musty..your said suppliant as yet can haue non vttraunce therof.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 730/1 Sprede your corne abrode, it wyll vaxe musty els.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 649/2 When his wordes be wel sifted, men shall find little fine flowre in them, but all very mustie branne.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. C3 But of wheat because it was musty and had taken salt water wee could make no triall: and of rye we had none.
1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1885) VIII. 28 Away I scudded in the musty moth-eaten habit.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxi. 38 And wast thou faine..To houill thee with swine and rogues forlorne, In short and mustie straw. View more context for this quotation
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 199 Have your worms well scowred, and not kept in sowre or mustie moss. View more context for this quotation
1694 E. Gibson Let. 30 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 216 Old musty papers are but ill company for neat cloaths and white hands.
1703 T. D'Urfey Old Mode & New i. i. 11 I can smell the musty Bed-mats, and Kitchen-dressers, above half a Mile before I come to't.
1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 155 The heat of an iron stove rendered the straw musty and the air hot.
1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. x. 199 You don't suppose he is to shut himself up, with a few musty books, sleeping over the fire, under pretence of study.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. xi. 103 An early public-house, haunted by unsavoury smells of musty hay.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xiv. 120 She walked into the study amongst the old musty books.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 792 The damage done by the use of musty grain as food falls upon the nervous system.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage cxvi. 616 The pages were musty with age and stained with mould.
1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 144/1 Phosgene has a faint smell of musty hay; and it tends to work its way down into cellars and ‘dug-outs’.
1981 K. Thear in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry ii. 60/2 It is best to cull affected birds and replace any musty litter or feed.
c. Having the faint unpleasant odour of mould; smelling of damp or decay; stale and unaired.
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 Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Cii Howe be it of scape thryfte your clokes smelleth musty.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. i. f. 95v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Beare with me..that leade thee..into a mustye mault house.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. iii. 55 Being entertain'd for a perfumer, as I was smoaking a musty roome, comes me the prince and Claudio. View more context for this quotation
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 592 Do not all Houses and Places grow musty..if the Air be any way prevented by Window-shutters..that it cannot have its free egress and regress?
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. iv. 208 The very air..feels musty.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) II. 15 I was terribly afraid, from what I had heard of Blackwater Park, of fatiguing antique chairs..and musty, frouzy hangings.
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 268 It was a close, musty, ill-ventilated place, as might be expected, since its inmate seldom left it.
1994 B. A. Staples Parallel Time vi. 87 My father would have shed his musty truck-driver's clothes and become the self that we were seeing less and less of.
d. Characteristic of or belonging to mould; characterized by mustiness or mouldiness.
ΚΠ
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. xiv. 433 To correct a musty Taste in Wine.
1849 H. Melville Redburn xxviii. 172 It proved a miserable beverage, with a musty, sour flavor.
1882 M. A. Paull Thistledown Lodge III. 88 A musty odour joined to the greasiness and mousiness of the apartment.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 124/2 Under the microscope they would look like a mass of white fibers, but they are still invisible to the casual observer. Only a slight musty odor might give any indication of their presence.
2000 Independent on Sunday 3 Sept. i. 1/4 The musty taste associated with corked wine fungus is 2-4-6 trichloroanisole, or TCA.
2. figurative.
a. Of something immaterial: that has lost its freshness, interest, or vitality; outmoded, old-fashioned, archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated
moth-frettenOE
antiquate?a1425
antique?1532
rusty1549
moth-eaten1551
musty1575
worm-eatenc1575
overyear1584
out of date1589
old-fashioned1592
out of date1592
worm-eat1597
old-fashion1599
ancient1601
outdated1616
out-of-fashion1623
over-aged1623
superannuateda1634
thorough-old1639
overdateda1641
trunk-hosea1643
antiquitated1645
antiquated1654
out-of-fashioned1671
unmodern1731
of the old school1749
auld-farrant1750
old-fangled1764
fossila1770
fogram1772
passé1775
unmodernized1775
oxidated1791
moss-covered1792
square-toeda1797
old-fashionable1807
pigtail1817
behind the times1826
slow1827
fossilized1828
rococo1836
antiquish1838
old-timey1850
out of season1850
moss-grown1851
old style1858
antiqued1859
pigtaily1859
prehistoric1859
backdated1862
played1864
fossiled1866
bygone1869
mossy-backed1870
old-worldly1878
past-time1889
outmoded1896
dated1900
brontosaurian1909
antiquey1926
horse-and-buggy1926
vintage1928
Neolithic1934
time-warped1938
demoded1941
steam age1941
hairy1946
old school1946
rinky-dink1946
time warp1954
Palaeolithic1957
retardataire1958
throwback1968
wally1969
antwacky1975
1575 G. Gascoigne Hemetes Heremyte in Wks. (1910) II. 477 For my latyne is rustye, myne Itallyan mustye, and my french forgrowne.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D4 v I know manie wise Gentlemen of this mustie vocation [sc. Antiquaries].
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 331 But while the grasse growes, the prouerbe is something musty . View more context for this quotation
1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 46 Some old musty Laws.
1729 J. Gay Polly i. i. 2 As to conscience and musty morals, I have as few drawbacks upon my profits or pleasures as any man of quality in England.
a1764 C. Churchill Journey (1765) 7 Read musty lectures on Benevolence.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 42 Your newspapers delayed..till..all their intelligence is musty.
1883 Science 2 Mar. 110/1 He..rode circuit with his mind on older, if less musty, things than Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce.
1899 H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne xxv. 318 No buried legend of his house, no musty tale of wrongs suffered and repaid but came back to mind.
1926 W. J. Locke Stories Near & Far 153 Musty congratulations.
1987 A. Brien Lenin vi. 700 We have made a revolution yet we stick to the mustiest rituals.
b. Of a person: dull and unadventurous; having a ponderous, old-fashioned, or unoriginal outlook; fogeyish. Cf. fusty adj. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > of persons
weary1549
wearisome1573
musty1603
slow1840
anoraked1960
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
1603 J. Manningham Diary 3 Apr. (1976) 222 Musty doctors, that lett learning mould and rust in them for want of use.
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 119 They settle upon their own dregs, and grow muddy and musty with long ease.
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 48 How is it, you old musty Dotard, that with a sorrow you hide the keys of your Chests from me?
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 482. ¶2 Being married to a Bookish Man, who has no Knowledge of the World, she is forced..to spirit him up now and then, that he may not grow musty, and unfit for Conversation.
1745 H. Fielding True Patriot 26 Nov. 1/3 None but a musty Moralist..would have condemned it.
a1763 J. Byrom Poetaster 24 Then he..of old musty Bards mumbles over the Names.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. viii. 86 A little rusty, musty old fellow, always groping among ruins.
1883 Good Words 24 183 The doctors say we get musty and fusty if we stay in one place.
1926 D. Parker Enough Rope (1977) 83 You will be frail and musty, with peering furtive head, whilst I am young and lusty, among the roaring dead.
1987 A. Wiseman Mem. of Bk. Molesting Childhood 32 Musty old grandmothers whose faces cracked into a thousand responsive wrinkles when you greeted them.
3. Peevish, sullen, bad-tempered. Now English regional (north-western).
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
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xlviii. 313 The ill-wounded Don Quixote was exceeding musty and melancholy, with his Face bound vp and scarred.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. G/1 He is monstrous vexed, and musty, at my Chesse-play.
1672 T. Shadwell Miser i What a Devil makes thee in so musty a humour?
c1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 691 He was very musty because I would not catch at the bait and be his bubble.
1760 S. Foote Minor ii. 56 Here comes the musty trader, running over with remonstrances. I must banter the cit.
1821 P. Egan Life in London (1904) II. ii. 147 The Corinthian..floored two or three of the musty coves.
1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 12 Fadder leuckt varra musty, an niver oppent his gob.

Compounds

C1.
musty-looking adj.
ΚΠ
1840 N. Hawthorne Haunted Quack 62 A small regiment of musty-looking books were drawn up in line upon a couple of shelves.
1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 80 As they watched, a musty-looking rabbit hippety-hopped from a corner.
musty-smelling adj.
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
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > musty or mouldy
fennyc1000
vinnyOE
mouleda1250
moulya1398
mouldena1400
spaked1438
vinniedc1450
mouldy1495
hoared1496
mustyc1503
foisty1519
hoary1530
moskin1531
hoar1544
mouldeda1552
foistied1572
mustied1572
fustied1576
spaky1590
mildewed1605
musted1632
mucid1656
mungy1658
foisted1688
vinnewya1722
mochy1825
musty-smelling1852
musty-fusty1857
1852 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 19 474/2 It is a sober business, riding at midnight in a musty-smelling cab.
1864 E. C. Gaskell in Cornhill Mag. Sept. 382 A large, musty-smelling room.
1981 A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry viii. 210/1 In thrush the frog is found to be wet and pitted, oozing a dark musty-smelling liquid.
† musty walled adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1751 tr. Female Foundling II. 135 An old, musty walled Chapel.
C2. In rhyming compounds.
musty-fusty adj.
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 > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > mouldy or musty
fennyc1000
vinnyOE
mouleda1250
moulya1398
mouldena1400
spaked1438
vinniedc1450
mouldy1495
hoared1496
mustyc1503
foisty1519
mocha1522
hoary1530
hoar1544
mouldeda1552
mowsy1566
foistied1572
fustied1576
spaky1590
musted1632
mouldish1648
emucid1656
mucid1656
mungy1658
mouldly1678
foisted1688
mothery1697
vinnewya1722
rusty-fustya1790
musty-fusty1857
mucidous1866
blue-vinnied1880
blue-veined1898
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty > of air or atmosphere
fustya1529
mustya1529
fat1598
frowzy1681
musty-smelling1852
musty-fusty1857
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > musty or mouldy
fennyc1000
vinnyOE
mouleda1250
moulya1398
mouldena1400
spaked1438
vinniedc1450
mouldy1495
hoared1496
mustyc1503
foisty1519
hoary1530
moskin1531
hoar1544
mouldeda1552
foistied1572
mustied1572
fustied1576
spaky1590
mildewed1605
musted1632
mucid1656
mungy1658
foisted1688
vinnewya1722
mochy1825
musty-smelling1852
musty-fusty1857
1857 W. Collins Dead Secret II. iv. iv. 50 In that old part of the house it is what you call musty-fusty.
1921 W. de la Mare Crossings 17 No more scales in that musty-fusty old practice-room!
1980 Paleobiology 6 110/2 A desire to renounce musty-fusty notions of historical uniqueness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mustyadj.3

Brit. /ˈmʌsti/, U.S. /ˈməsti/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: musth adj., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < musth adj. + -y suffix1.
rare.
Of a male elephant, camel, etc.: that is in musth. See musth adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [adjective] > relating to elephants > in must
musth1839
musty1868
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [adjective] > sexually excited
musty1868
1868 Morning Star 6 Jan. 5/4 The twentieth [elephant]..was so vicious and ‘musty’.
1882 E. A. Floyer Unexplored Baluchistan 57 The two ‘musty’ camels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† mustyv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: musty adj.2
Etymology: < musty adj.2 Compare earlier mustied adj.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To become musty. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink [verb (intransitive)] > become fusty or musty
must1530
foisty1572
foist1583
fusta1592
musty1631
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > become mouldy or musty
vinnyOE
moul?c1225
mould1530
foisty1572
hoar1573
milder1592
musty1631
to grow whiskers1977
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > become corrupt or putrid [verb (intransitive)] > become musty or mouldy
vinnyOE
moul?c1225
mould1530
must1530
foisty1572
hoar1573
musty1631
mildew1651
to grow whiskers1977
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [verb (intransitive)] > become old-fashioned
musty1631
to go out1772
fossilize1845
stale1893
date1924
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes ii. §22. 160 Corne..being so heaped together..mustieth, putrifieth, and is made unfit for use.
1633 J. Shirley Gamester ii. ii But I may lose it ere I go to bed. Dost think 't shall musty? What's a hundred pound?
a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 68 You..keep your Reputation musty'ng upon an old Foundation, which is ready to sink.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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