rusty
pronunciation
How to pronounce rusty in British English:
UK [ˈrʌsti]
How to pronounce rusty in American English:
US [ˈrʌsti]
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- Adjective:
- covered with or consisting of rust
- of the color of rust
- impaired in skill by neglect
- ancient
Word Origin
- rusty (adj.)
- Old English rustig; see rust (n.) + -y (2). Cognate with Frisian roastich, Middle Dutch roestich, Dutch roestig, Old High German rostag, German rostig. "In the 16th and 17th centuries frequently used as a term of general disparagement" [OED]. Of bodily skills, "impaired by neglect," from c. 1500; of mental qualities, accomplishments, etc., first attested 1796.
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Example
- 1. The jacket falls , and he 's aiming a rusty old nine millimeter at my chest .
- 2. The rocks and soil and the rusty dust are always blowing around in the freeze dry atmosphere .
- 3. U. s. investigators partly blamed his rusty pilot skills .
- 4. His statues are made of industrial debris , rusty pipes , lumps of iron , of wood and stone .
- 5. They take old , rusty tanks and some faultless equipment from other tanks and prepare them for paiting .