fusty

Word family

fus·ty /ˈfʌsti/ adjectiveadj

1. AIRif rooms, clothes, buildings etc are fusty, they have an unpleasant smell, because they have not been used for a long time 〔房间、衣服、建筑物等〕发霉味的 SYN musty

2 informalOLD-FASHIONED ideas or people that are fusty are old-fashioned 〔观念或人〕过时的，守旧的

fusty old academics

古板的老学究

—fustiness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

fusty• Dry rot smells fusty and has white cobweb-pattern marks.• A number of young economists, impatient with such fusty arguments, began searching for new models.• Standing so close he smelt the fusty clothes and a sour whiff on the old man's breath.• The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.• The pages were stiffened with age and the tome smelt fusty, like a damp cloth left to dry on a radiator.• So, the artists' shell remains intact, the fusty public image undisturbed.• There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.• All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature.

Origin fusty

(1400-1500) fust “wooden wine container” ((15-16 centuries)), from Old French, from Latin fustis; → FUSTIAN

fus·ty adjectiveadj

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 43201 COCA: 37995

fusty

Smelling unpleasant: acrid, fetid, frowsty...

Old-fashioned: old-fashioned, primitive, obsolete...

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