fusty

Definitions


[ˈfʌsti], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- smelling stale, damp, or stuffy
(e.g: the fusty odour of decay)


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Origin:
late 15th century: from Old French fuste ‘smelling of the cask’, from fust ‘cask, tree trunk’, from Latin fustis ‘cudgel’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries