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fusty

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fus⋅ty

  [fuhs-tee]
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–adjective, -ti⋅er, -ti⋅est.
1. having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing.
2. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house.
3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME fusti, equiv. to fust (n.) < OF: wine cask, tree trunk (< L fūstis stick, pole) + -y 1

Related forms:
fus⋅ti⋅ly, adverb
fus⋅ti⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. close, stuffy, oppressive; smelly, malodorous.
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fus·ty   (fŭs'tē)   
adj.   fus·ti·er, fus·ti·est

  1. Smelling of mildew or decay; musty.

  2. Old-fashioned; antique.


[Middle English, from Old French fust, piece of wood, wine cask, from Latin fūstis, stick, club.]
fus'ti·ly adv., fus'ti·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

fusty 
"stale-smelling," 1398, from O.Fr. fusté "fusty, tasting of the cask," from O.Fr. fuist, "wine cask," originally "stick, stave," from L. fustis "staff, stick of wood."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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