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Definition of Fusty

Fusty
Fusty Fusty, a. [Compar. Fustier; superl Fustiest.] [See 2d Fust.] 1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. ``A fusty plebeians.' --Shak. 2. Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. --Pepys.

Meaning of Fusty from wikipedia

- Look up fustic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fustic is a common name for several plants and a yellow dye produced from these plants: Maclura tinctoria...
- as old fustic and dyer's mulberry, is a medium to large tree of the Neotropics, from Mexico to Argentina. It produces a yellow dye called fustic primarily...
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fustic" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 375. "Young fustic". Britannica.com. Encyclopaedia...
- had a sense of longing for adventure and has lost it and become fussy and fusty." In 2010, del Toro left the project because of ongoing delays. On 28 May...
- bespoke fashions, ****ure-vintage gadgets, and aristocratic décor from its fusty worldview". Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com, who gave the film two out...
- at the same time pokes fun at those attitudes by embodying them in the fusty old scholar unconcerned with the affairs of the mundane world. Carl Spitzweg...
- rather than having the character sound like "some Oxford-educated, old, fusty guy in a tudor parlor somewhere", and aside from researching the character's...
- To its devotees, the bow tie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bow tie hints at intellectualism...
- the Attic, closet drama is "Dreariest of literature, most second hand and fusty of experience!" But indeed a great deal of it was written in Victorian times...
- requirements and is checked for "sensory defects" that include: rancid, fusty, musty, winey (vinegary), and muddy sediment. These defects can occur for...