单词 | fusty |
释义 | fusty —fustily, adv. —fustiness, n. /fus"tee/, adj., fustier, fustiest. 1. having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing. 2. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house. 3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish. [1350-1400; ME fusti, equiv. to fust (n.) < OF: wine cask, tree trunk ( < L fustis stick, pole) + -Y1] Syn. 1. close, stuffy, oppressive; smelly, malodorous. |
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