musty
pronunciation
How to pronounce musty in British English:
UK [ˈmʌsti]
How to pronounce musty in American English:
US [ˈmʌsti]
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- Adjective:
- covered with or smelling of mold
- stale and unclean smelling
Word Origin
- musty
- musty: see moist
- musty (adj.)
- 1520s, perhaps a variant of moisty "moist, damp" (see moist). Related: Mustiness.
Example
- 1. That 's a story I sure would like to find in a musty box someday .
- 2. Poipet , cambodia - one thinks of slavery as an evil confined to musty sepia photographs .
- 3. Ms russell has produced a rich and humid world of spirits and dreams , buzzing mosquitoes and prehistoric reptiles , baby-green cocoplums and marsh rabbits , and musty old tomes about heroes and spells .
- 4. The objective was to bring ancient musty texts out of inaccessible libraries and reproduce them in modern volumes for all to see and study .
- 5. Here , I was allowed to wander the musty aisles , before being taken into one of the offices to gaze upon the fabled wall of found : a series of noticeboards that I was given permission to partially dismantle for the purpose of this piece .