fust

See also füst

English

Verb

fust (third-person singular simple present fusts, present participle fusting, simple past and past participle fusted)

1. (obsolete) To decay.
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet , act IV scene 4

     Sure he that made us with such large discourse

     Looking before and after, gave us not

     That capability and godlike reason

     To fust in us unused.

Noun

fust (plural fusts)

1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.

Anagrams

• STFU

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏst

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Noun

fust n (plural fusten, diminutive fustje)

1. cask (e.g. containing beer)

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Old French

Etymology 1

see estre

Verb

fust

1. Third-person singular past historic of estre

Descendants

• French: fut

Etymology 2

From Latin fustis

Noun

fust m (oblique plural fusts, nominative singular fusts, nominative plural fust)

1. wooden beam or plank

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *funstiz, whence also Old English fyst, ultimately from Indo-European *pnsti-, a variant of *pnksti- ‘fist’. Cognate with Old Frisian fest, Old Saxon fūst (Dutch vuist) and with Russian пясть ‘palm of the hand’, Polish pięść ‘fist’, Serbian pest 'fist' and prst 'finger'.

Noun

fūst f

1. fist

Descendants

• German: Faust