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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FUST'Y, a. [See Fust.] Moldy; musty; ill smelling; rank; rancid.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: stale and unclean smelling [syn: fusty, musty, frowsty]
2: old-fashioned and out of date [syn: fusty, standpat, unprogressive, nonprogressive]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (fustier; -est) Etymology: probably alteration of Middle English foisted, foist musty, from foist wine cask, from Anglo-French fust, fuist wood, tree trunk, cask, from Medieval Latin fustis Date: 14th century 1. British impaired by age or dampness ; moldy 2. saturated with dust and stale odors ; musty 3. rigidly old-fashioned or reactionary Synonyms: see malodorous • fustily adverb • fustiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (fustier, fustiest) 1 stale-smelling, musty, mouldy. 2 stuffy, close. 3 antiquated, old-fashioned. Derivatives: fustily adv. fustiness n. Etymology: ME f. OF fusté smelling of the cask f. fust cask, tree-trunk, f. L fustis cudgel

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fusty Fusty, a. [Compar. Fustier; superl Fustiest.] [See 2d Fust.] 1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. ``A fusty plebeians.'' --Shak. 2. Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. --Pepys.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fustier, fustiest) 1. If you describe something or someone as fusty, you disapprove of them because they are old-fashioned in attitudes or ideas. The fusty old establishment refused to recognise the demand for popular music. ADJ [disapproval] 2. A fusty place or thing has a smell that is not fresh or pleasant. ...fusty old carpets. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Musty, mouldy, rank, ill-smelling, malodorous.

Moby Thesaurus

archaic, back-number, bad, bad-smelling, banal, bewhiskered, blasted, blighted, blown, bromidic, bygone, close, common, commonplace, corny, crumbling, cut-and-dried, dated, despoiled, dilapidated, dirty, disheveled, dusty, fade, familiar, fecal, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, gamy, gone to seed, graveolent, hackney, hackneyed, high, ill-smelling, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, old hat, olid, outdated, passe, platitudinous, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, set, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, smellful, smelling, smelly, smutted, smutty, squalid, square, stale, stenchy, stereotyped, stinking, stock, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, trite, truistic, unkempt, unoriginal, vile, warmed-over, weevily, well-known, well-worn, worm-eaten, wormy, worn, worn thin