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fustinesses

fustinesses is the plural of fustiness.

Meaning of fustiness

Noun

fustiness (usually uncountable, plural fustinesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of being fusty.
    • […] I was running away from drabness, fustiness, snobbery, the claustrophobia of close horizons, and from my inability, although I am quite an attractive rat, to make headway in the rat-race.1980 [1962], Ian Fleming, chapter 1, in The Spy Who Loved Me, →ISBN, page 3

Questions about fustinesses

What is fustinesses the plural of?
Fustinesses is the plural of fustiness.

Words near fustinesses in the dictionary

  1. fustilug
  2. fustilugs
  3. fustily
  4. fustin
  5. fustiness
  6. fustinesses
  7. fusting
  8. fustoc
  9. Fuston
  10. Fustons
  11. fustrated

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