Definitions for fusty

fusty fus·ty

Spelling: [fuhs-tee]
IPA: /ˈfʌs ti/

Fusty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in fusty (fstuy).

Definitions for fusty

adjective

  1. having a stale smell; moldy; musty:
  2. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like:
  3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.

Origin of fusty

1350-1400; Middle English fusti, equivalent to fust (noun) Old French: wine cask, tree trunk (Latin fūstis stick, pole) + -y1

Examples for fusty

You would have us go and live in that damp, musty, fusty place?

But the devil's a great deal too good for 'em—fusty villains.Ch.

The cab is fusty, the driver is sulky, the morning is foggy.

I know, I know—I feel like a fusty old crank merely posing the question.

It seems so funny not to go to it, instead of moping in these fusty lodgings.

In the damp climate of western Carolina such an interior is fusty, or even wet.

fusty, earlier foisty, is no longer used in its proper sense.

As I love the facts of life more, I care less for fusty commentators.

Any chance that fusty old uniform can get revamped into something more appropriately Batman-esque for the occasion?

You're not selfish and you're not fusty; but you remind me of him when you make remarks like your first.

Word Value for fusty
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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