fusty

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Alas! all these good people, now grown so rusty, fusty, and forgotten, might have rolled under their tongues, as a sweet morsel, those lines which civil Abraham Cowley sent to Leviathan Hobbes To things immortal Time can do no wrong And that which never is to die forever must be young Alas!

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  1. adjective Smelling of mildew or decay; musty.
  2. adjective Old-fashioned; antique.

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  • Perhaps, like mine, your bird feeders are cracked, fusty, or just plain busted. —  The Independent Weekly
  • And I'm extremely disappointed that amidst the top-to-bottom redesign, no one bothered to touch the WSJ's atrocious search function, which sits in the middle of the shiny new site like a fusty old tramp. —  Felix Salmon - All posts
  • Since opera is, generally speaking, a deeply traditional, often fusty (for all the right reasons) art form, this is a challenge. —  Metro Weekly (Newspaper Magazine of Gay and Lesbian DC)
  • I mean, all those fusty voters need to do is peruse some of her finest moments on YouTube - the with Marc - and they'll have to put her name on the ballot. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • But imagine if, as well as the fusty old Google Books library, Sony and Google really got into sync. —  Fast Company
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French fust, piece of wood, wine cask, from Latin fūstis, stick, club.

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  1. Also fousty, foisty; from Old French fusté, fusty, tasting of the cask, from fuste, a cask: see fust. Hence fust.
 

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