rusty

See also: Rusty

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌsti/
• Rhymes: -ʌsti

Etymology 1

From Middle English rusty, from Old English rustiġ (“rusty”), from Proto-Germanic *rustagaz (“rusty”), equivalent to rust +‎ -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian rusterch (“rusty”), West Frisian rustich, roastich (“rusty”), Dutch roestig (“rusty”), German Low German rusterig, rüsterig (“rusty”), German rostig (“rusty”), Swedish rostig (“rusty”).

Adjective

rusty (comparative rustier, superlative rustiest)

1. Marked or corroded by rust. [from 9th c.]
2. Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. [from 14th c.]
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIV:

     Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;

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     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

3. Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity. [from 16th c.]
   • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:

     Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.

4. (now chiefly historical) Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby. [from 17th c.]
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.

5. Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.

Derived terms

• ride rusty
• rusty nail
• Rusty (nickname)
• turn rusty

Translations

affected by rust

• Arabic: صَدِئ (ṣadiʔ)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: іржа́вы m (iržávy)
• Catalan: rovellat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生鏽的／生锈的 (zh), 生锈的 (zh) (shēngxiù de)

• Cornish: gossenek
• Czech: rezavý m
• Danish: rusten (da)
• Dutch: roestig (nl), verroest (nl)
• Esperanto: rusta (eo)
• Finnish: ruosteinen (fi)
• French: rouillé (fr)
• Galician: ferruxento m, ferruxenta f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: rostig (de), verrostet (de)
• Greek: σκουριασμένος (el) (skouriasménos)
• Hungarian: rozsdás (hu)
• Icelandic: ryðgaður
• Irish: meirgeach
• Italian: arrugginito (it) m, arrugginita (it) f
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• Japanese: さびた (ja) (sabita)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: rōbīginōsus (iron), aerūginōsus (bronze or copper)
• Luxembourgish: raschteg
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rusten (no)

  Nynorsk: rusten, rusta

• Portuguese: enferrujado (pt) m, ferrugento m
• Romanian: ruginit (ro)
• Russian: ржа́вый (ru) (ržávyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: hrđav (sh), rđav (sh)
• Slovak: hrdzavý (sk) m
• Spanish: herrumbroso (es)
• Swedish: rostig (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Venetian: rùxene (vec)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: rhydlyd (cy)

of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown

• Cornish: gossenek
• Czech: rezavý m
• Danish: rustfarvet, rustrød (da) (reddish)
• Finnish: ruosteenruskea (fi)
• Hungarian: rozsdabarna
• Latin: ferrūgineus m, rōbīginōsus
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• Slovak: hrdzavý (sk) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: ryzy

• Spanish: herrumbroso (es) m, rojizo (es)
• Swedish: rostfärgad
• Welsh: lliw rhwd, rhydliw, rhytgoch

lacking recent experience, out of practice

• Catalan: rovellat
• Danish: rusten (da)
• Estonian: roostes
• Finnish: ruosteinen (fi), ruosteessa (fi)
• French: rouillé (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: σκουριασμένος (el) (skouriasménos), ξεπερασμένος (el) (xeperasménos)
• Hungarian: berozsdásodott (hu)
• Italian: arrugginito (it) m, arrugginita (it) f
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• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rusten (no)

  Nynorsk: rusten

• Portuguese: enferrujado (pt) m, destreinado
• Spanish: oxidado (es)
• Swedish: ringrostig
• Welsh: rhydlyd (cy)

worn, shabby

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} rouillé (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} rouillée (fr) f (1)
• German: ^{(please verify)} rostig (de) (1), ^{(please verify)} rostfarben (2), ^{(please verify)} eingerostet (de) (4)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} arrugginito (it) m, ^{(please verify)} arrugginita (it) f (1)
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• Norman: ^{(please verify)} roui (Jersey)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} rostig (sv) (1,4), ^{(please verify)} rostfärgad (3)

Etymology 2

Variant form of resty; compare also reasty.

Adjective

rusty (comparative more rusty, superlative most rusty)

1. Discolored and rancid; reasty. [from 16th c.]

   rusty bacon

Anagrams

• Tyrus, yurts