英语词汇“fustiness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fustyfus‧ty /ˈfʌsti/ adjective

WORD ORIGINfusty

Origin:

1400-1500 fust ‘wooden wine container’ (15-16 centuries), from Old French, from Latin fustis; ➔ FUSTIAN

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

A number of young economists, impatient with such fusty arguments, began searching for new models.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature.
Dry rot smells fusty and has white cobweb-pattern marks.
So, the artists' shell remains intact, the fusty public image undisturbed.
Standing so close he smelt the fusty clothes and a sour whiff on the old man's breath.
The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.
The pages were stiffened with age and the tome smelt fusty, like a damp cloth left to dry on a radiator.
There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.

1if rooms, clothes, buildings etc are fusty, they have an unpleasant smell, because they have not been used for a long time SYN musty2informal ideas or people that are fusty are old-fashioned:

fusty old academics—fustiness noun [uncountable]

单词	fustiness
释义	fustyfus‧ty /ˈfʌsti/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINfusty Origin: 1400-1500 fust ‘wooden wine container’ (15-16 centuries), from Old French, from Latin fustis; ➔ FUSTIAN Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES A number of young economists, impatient with such fusty arguments, began searching for new models. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature. Dry rot smells fusty and has white cobweb-pattern marks. So, the artists' shell remains intact, the fusty public image undisturbed. Standing so close he smelt the fusty clothes and a sour whiff on the old man's breath. The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous. The pages were stiffened with age and the tome smelt fusty, like a damp cloth left to dry on a radiator. There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes. 1if rooms, clothes, buildings etc are fusty, they have an unpleasant smell, because they have not been used for a long time SYN musty2informal ideas or people that are fusty are old-fashioned: fusty old academics—fustiness noun [uncountable]
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