fusty
adjective/ˈfʌsti/
/ˈfʌsti/
(disapproving)- smelling old, slightly wet or not fresh synonym musty
- a dark fusty room
- old-fashioned
- fusty ideas
- He has a fusty public image.
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Old French fuste ‘smelling of the cask’, from fust ‘cask, tree trunk’, from Latin fustis ‘cudgel’.
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