Fust
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /fʌst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fust is a noun meaning A strong musty smell; mustiness.
Meaning
A strong musty smell; mustiness.
More Meanings
- (architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.
- (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.
- (nautical, historical) A type of small galley.
- Nonstandard form of first.
Example Sentences
I mowlde, or fust, as corne dothe. Je moisis, sec. conj.
the fust of old books & older cheese / nobody loves gossip like these salaried dudes
Sure he that made vs with ſuch large diſcourse / Looking before and after, gaue vs not / That capabilitie and god-like reaſon / To fvſt in vs vnvſed, […]
I marvel that the clergy don't propose / A day of fasting and humiliation, / As they did when potatoe crops were fusted;— / We're now much worse, when porridge-pots are rusted.
Word Forms
- fusts
- fusting
- fusted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include foist, fustian, fumosity, fumet, fustoc, fustet.
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