Word of the Day fusty \FUHS-tee\, adjective: 1. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house. 2. having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing. 3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish. It seemed somewhat fusty with its plush gold and red trimmings and ornate furniture, all of it so completely devoid of human activity. -- Curtis Gillespie She entered, and without further talk went up a steep, fusty stair and knocked at a door on a tiny landing. -- Thomas Burke Fusty can be traced back to the Latin fustis meaning staff, stick of wood. It entered English in the 1390s.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:46:54 +0000
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