fusty
11fusty — fus|ty [ˈfʌsti] adj [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: fust wooden wine container (15 16 centuries), from Old French, from Latin fustis; FUSTIAN] 1.) if rooms, clothes, buildings etc are fusty, they have an unpleasant smell, because they have not been… …
12fusty — adjective 1 if rooms, clothes, buildings etc are fusty, they have an unpleasant smell, because they have not been used for a long time 2 informal ideas or people that are fusty are old fashioned: These fusty ideas about education should be… …
13fusty — 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 old fashioned or out of date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in… …
14fusty — fus|ty [ fʌsti ] adjective 1. ) something that is fusty smells old, dusty, or DAMP: MUSTY 2. ) old fashioned in appearance, style, or attitude: a grand but somewhat fusty hotel …
15fusty — Being difficult; usually the result of hunger or lack of sleep. Related to fussy. Usually accompanied by wiggling, foot stamping, whining, or making a wincing rat face. I know you re hungry, so stop being fusty and pick a restaurant already …
16fusty — Being difficult; usually the result of hunger or lack of sleep. Related to fussy. Usually accompanied by wiggling, foot stamping, whining, or making a wincing rat face. I know you re hungry, so stop being fusty and pick a restaurant already …
17fusty — adjective (fustier; est) Etymology: probably alteration of Middle English foisted, foist musty, from foist wine cask, from Anglo French fust, fuist wood, tree trunk, cask, from Medieval Latin fustis Date: 14th century 1. British impaired by age… …
18fusty — adjective a) moldy or musty b) stale smelling or stuffy …
19fusty — Synonyms and related words: archaic, back number, bad, bad smelling, banal, bewhiskered, blasted, blighted, blown, bromidic, bygone, close, common, commonplace, corny, crumbling, cut and dried, dated, despoiled, dilapidated, dirty, disheveled,… …
20fusty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. musty, stuffy, stale; old fashioned. See oldness. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Smelling of mildew or decay: frowzy, moldy, musty, putrid, rancid, rank2, rotten. See SMELLS. 2. Of a style… …
