fusty
pronunciation
How to pronounce fusty in British English:
UK [ˈfʌsti]
How to pronounce fusty in American English:
US [ˈfʌsti]
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- Adjective:
- stale and unclean smelling
- old-fashioned and out of date
Word Origin
- fusty
- fusty: see beat
- fusty (adj.)
- "stale-smelling," late 14c., from French fusté "fusty, tasting of the cask," from Old French fuste, fuist "wine cask," originally "stick, stave, wood" (Modern French fût), from Latin fustis "staff, stick of wood" (see fustigate). Related: Fustiness. Fustilugs was 17c. slang for "a woman of gross or corpulent habit" [OED], later generally in dialect for a big-boned person.
Example
- 1. The fusty old establishment refused to recognize the demand for popular music .
- 2. They still live in that fusty , gingerbread house .
- 3. Wikinomics is even rejuvenating the fusty old state .
- 4. Most of all , they are part of a zeitgeist in which the law is increasingly a global business like any other , rather than a fusty industry remote from the wider financial world .
- 5. That 's a fusty idea .