musty

English

Etymology

must +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʌstɪ]

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• Rhymes: -ʌsti

Adjective

musty (comparative mustier, superlative mustiest)

1. Having a stale odor.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. […] It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.

Derived terms

• mustily
• mustiness

Translations

having a stale odor

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發霉的 (zh), 发霉的 (zh) (fāméi de)

• Finnish: homeinen (fi), tunkkainen (fi)
• French: moisi (fr)
• Galician: balorento m
• German: muffig (de), modrig (de), miefig, schimmlig (de), moderig, dumpf (de), faulig (de), schimmelig, dumpfig, stockig
• Irish: múisiúnta
• Japanese: 黴臭い (ja) (かびくさい, kabikusai)
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• Korean: 곰팡내 나는 (gompangnae naneun)
• Latin: mucidus
• Maori: kōpuru
• Polish: stęchły (pl)
• Romanian: muced (ro)
• Russian: за́тхлый (ru) (zátxlyj)
• Spanish: mohoso (es) m
• Swedish: unken (sv)