Fusty

Definition: Fusty

Fusty

Adjective

1. Stale and unclean smelling.

2. Old-fashioned and out of date.

Date "fusty" was first used: 1491. (references)

Note: Fusty \Fusty\, adjective. [Comparative Fustier; superl Fustiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	Characteristic flavour of oil obtained from olives stored in piles which have undergone an advanced stage of fermentation. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fusty

Synonyms: frowsty (adj), musty (adj), nonprogressive (adj), standpat(a) (adj), unprogressive (adj). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: mouldiest (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Uncleanness	Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fusty

English words defined with "fusty": Foistied, Foisty, Fusiness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fusty": FUSTY LUGGS. (references)

Etymologies containing "fusty": Fastilarian, Foisty. (references)

"Fusty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fusty" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	14	93,893

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "fusty": fusty-smelling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "fusty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i vjetruar (antiquated, back number, dated, decrepit, dilapidated, disreputable, moldy, moth-eaten, mouldy, napless, obsolete, old hat, out of date, outdated, outworn, overage, rusty, seasoned, second hand, superannuated, threadbare, time worn, worm-eaten), i mykur (frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, moldy, mouldy, musty). (various references)

Arabic		‏كريه الرائحة (fetid, foetid, malodorous, noisome, rank, smelling, smelly, stinking), ‏محافظ (back number, conservative, fogy, fogyish, governor, old fashioned, old time, old-line, tory), ‏متحجر (antiquated, fanatic, fanatical, fogy, fossil, outmoded), ‏عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, frowsty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, spoilt, stale, taint), ‏خام (bad-smelling, rotten, spoiled, stinking), ‏رجعي (atavistic, die hard, reactionary, reactive, retroactive, retrograde). (various references)

Bulgarian		старомоден (antiquated, archaic, corny, dowdy, fossil, hunker, moldy, obsolete, old fashioned, old hat, old time, out of date, outmoded, passe, primitive, quaint, square-toed, traditional), спарен (frowsty, pockety, stale), мухлясал (moldy, mouldy, musty), застоял (fuggy, slack, stagnant, still, stuffy, well-handled). (various references)

Czech		plesnivý (Gray, grey, mouldy, musty, rusty). (various references)

Danish		skimlet (mouldy), muggen (atrojado, mouldy), atrojado (atrojado). (various references)

Dutch		schimmelachtig (mouldy), olijvengisting (atrojado), kamig (mouldy). (various references)

Finnish		tunkkainen (atrojado), homeinen (mildewed, mouldy, musty), homehtunut (mildewed, mouldy, musty). (various references)

French		réactionnaire, moisi, de renfermé, couvert de fleurs, conservateur, chômé. (various references)

German		verstaubt (dusted, dusty, fuddy-duddy, gets dusty), moderig (frowstily, frowsty, frowzily, frowzy, mouldy, musty). (various references)

Greek		μπαγιάτικοσ (musty, stale), μουχλιασμένοσ (mildewy, moldy, mouldy, musty), μουχλιασμένος (mouldy), μουχλιασμένο (atrojado), ευρωτιών (mouldy). (various references)

Hebrew		מעופש (mouldy, muggy, musty, rotten). (various references)

Hungarian		penészes (mildewed, mildewy, moldy, mouldy, musty), dohos (damp, frouzy, frowzy, moldy, mouldy, musty, stuffy), régimódi (antiquated, antique, dated, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, old fashioned, old fogey, old-fashioned, out of date, passe), idejétmúlt (musty, obsolete, outdated, outmoded, outworn, played out, to be out of favour), áporodott (airless, frouzy, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, stale, stuffy, vapid). (various references)

Indonesian		basi (bowl, reduction, spoiled, stale, trivial), apek (fuggy). (various references)

Italian		stantio (musty, stale), riscaldo (atrojado, scald), colpito da fioretta (mouldy), ammuffito (moldy, mouldy, musty). (various references)

Pig Latin		ustyfay

Portuguese		sufocante (choky, close, oppressive, smothery, stifling, suffocant), mofo (mold, mould, must, mustiness, rust), mofento, coberto de flor (mouldy), bolorento (frowzy, moldy, mouldy, musty, rusty, stale), abafado (airless, anxious, busy, choky, close, fuggy, stuffy, suffocant, suffocating, sultry, thick), a tulha (atrojado). (various references)

Romanian		stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated), muced (blue-mouldy), încins (fiery, girded, hot, musty). (various references)

Russian		затхлый (frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, musty, pockety). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		staromodan (frumpish, moss-grown, old fashioned, old hat, outmoded, passe, quaint, square-toed), plesniv (damp, moldy, mouldy), memljiv (damp). (various references)

Spanish		rancio (musty, old world, rancid, stale, true blue), molroso (mouldy), mohoso (mildewed, moldy, mouldy, musty, rusty), atrojado (atrojado). (various references)

Swedish		unken (frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, musty, stale, whiffy). (various references)

Thai		เหม็นชื้น, ความล้าสมัย (dowdiness). (various references)

Turkish		modası geçmiş (antiquated, archaic, corny, demode, demoded, fogeyish, fogyish, moss-grown, obsolete, old fashioned, old hat, old world, out, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, passe, passee, queen anne is dead, superannuated, unfashionable, worm-eaten), kokuşmuş (bad, fetid, foul, hard set, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten), küf kokulu (dank, frowsty, frowzy, musty, nosey, nosy, smelling moldy, smelling mouldy, stuffy), köhne (effete, fossil, musty, old, ramshackle, ratty, rickety, tumbledown, worn), eski kafalı (conservative, fogeyish, fogyish, fossil, fuddy-duddy, grubby, narrow minded, old fashioned, old fogeyish, old fogyish, square-toed, superannuated). (various references)

Ukrainian		застарілий (antiquated, antique, archaic, chronic, decrepit, demoded, fossil, inveterate, moldy, mouldy, musty, obsolete, old, old fashioned, old hat, oldfangled, ole, out of date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over age, overworn, passe, played out, rusty, superannuated, time worn, worm-eaten), затхлий (frowsty, frowzy, spent, stale), задушливий (airless, asphyxiant, choky, frowzy, muggy, smothery, suffocant, suffocating). (various references)

Vietnamese		hủ lậu (fogyish, old-fogey, old-fogeyish, old-fogy, old-fogyish), hôi mốc cổ lổ, ẩm mốc. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fustis. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	fuist,. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Fusty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Custy, fastly, fasty, festi, festy, fisety, fistey, fosty, fosy, foty, fuesday, Fuity, fulty, funti, Fusata, Fusato, fushy, fust, fuste, fustis, fusy, Justy, ousty. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-s-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: sty, uts.
	-3 letters: us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "f-s-t-u-y"
	+1 letter: fluyts, stuffy.
	+2 letters: fustily, justify, stupefy.
	+3 letters: dyestuff, stuffily, stultify, trayfuls, unsafety, unstuffy.
	+4 letters: dyestuffs, fatuously, lustfully, pussyfoot, restfully, wistfully, zestfully.
	+5 letters: boastfully, candytufts, factiously, fusibility, ghastfully, joyfullest, justifying, pussyfoots, slothfully, spitefully, sportfully, stupefying, tastefully, tristfully, trustfully, wastefully.
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