musty

musty meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam

Examples of musty in a sentence

• [C]ome prithee let's be gone out of this ungrateful Air of his old Houſe; a pox on't, I can ſmell the muſty Bed-mats, and Kitchen-dreſſers, above half a Mile before I come to't.[1703], Tho[mas] d’Urfey, The Old Mode & the New, or, Country Miss with Her Furbeloe. A Comedy. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott, and sold...
• Bradley assenting, went with him into an early public-house, haunted by unsavoury smells of musty hay and stale straw, […]1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “In the Dark”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published...
• It was a thin book bound in faded morocco, with a copper-plate engraving as a frontispiece; the pages were musty with age and stained with mould.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CXVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 616:
• That's what happens when you're not weighed down with all that musty, old armor!2019 November 13, “Reize – Showdown Character Highlight”, in Yacht Club Games, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2020:

All 25 example sentences with musty

Synonyms of musty

• fusty
• outmoded
• fogeyish

Forms of musty

Origin of musty

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English musty; further origin uncertain, possibly from one of the following: * From Anglo-Norman muste, moste, variants of moiste, muiste (“moist”), from Old French moiste (“clammy, damp, moist, wet”) (modern French moite (“muggy; sticky, sweaty”)), from a blend of Vulgar Latin *mucidus (from Latin mūcidus (“mouldy, musty”), from Old Latin mūceō (“to be mouldy or musty”) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’, forming adjectives)) + Latin mustum (“unfermented or partially fermented grape juice, must; new wine”) (from mustus (“fresh; young; unfermented”), from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp; moss”)). * From another language derived from the above Latin words (compare the cognates below). * A variant of Middle English mosty, moisti (“damp, humid, wet, moisty; of fruit: moist and juicy”) [and other forms] (perhaps influenced by must (“fruit (usually grape) juice which has been or will be fermented”)), from moist, moiste (“damp, humid; moist, wet; well-irrigated, well-watered; liquid; of ale: new; (figuratively) not withered, fresh; carnal, lascivious; raw, undisciplined”) (from Old French moiste: see above) + -i (suffix forming...

From musth (“time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).

Words formed from musty

• must
• mustied
• mustily
• mustiness

Words that rhyme with musty

• dusty
• lusty
• rusty
• crusty
• fusty
• gusty
• busty
• dustee
• MUSTIE
• pustie
• trusty
• untrusty

Questions about musty

What does musty mean?

Musty means affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.

What is musty in Tamil?

Musty in Tamil is ஊசிப்போன, ஊசிய வாசம் அடிக்கும், மடிசலான. See Musty meaning in Tamil.

How do you use musty in a sentence?

[C]ome prithee let's be gone out of this ungrateful Air of his old Houſe; a pox on't, I can ſmell the muſty Bed-mats, and Kitchen-dreſſers, above half a Mile before I come to't.

What part of speech is musty?

Musty can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce musty?

Musty is pronounced /ˈmʌsti/ (UK).