musty

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.

   “[W]hẽ his wordes be wel ſifted, men ſhall find little fine flowre in thẽ, but all very muſtie branne, not worthy ſo muche as to fede either horſe or hogges.”

2. sıfat Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste.

   “musty food    musty furniture    a musty odour”

3. sıfat Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness.

   “Not knowing what "swipes" might be, I thought I would run the risk and try it; but it proved a miserable beverage, with a musty, sour flavor, as if it had been a decoction of spoiled pickles.”

4. sıfat Of attitudes, ideas, writing, or other abstract things: no longer fresh or interesting; outdated, stale.

   “An antiquarie is an honest man, for he had rather scrape a piece of copper out of the durt, than a crowne out of Plodion's standish. I know manie wise gentlemen of this mustie vocation, […]”

5. sıfat Of a person: boring and unadventurous; also, old-fashioned, stuck in the past.

   “[T]hey ſettle upon their ovvn dregs, and grovv muddy and muſty vvith long eaſe, and their proſperity befooleth them to their ovvn deſtruction.”

6. sıfat Bad-tempered, grumpy, irritable.

   “The ill-vvounded Don Quixote vvas exceeding muſty and melancholy, vvith his face bound vp, and ſcarred not by the hand of God, but by the nayles of a Cat (misfortunes annexed to Knight Errantry) ſixe dayes paſt ere hee came abroad: […]”

7. isim A type of snuff with a musty flavour (adjective sense 2).
8. fiil To turn musty (adjective sense 1 or 2); to must.

   “Wi[lding]. But harke thee, harke thee VVill, did'ſt vvinne it? / Ha[zard]. No, but I may looſe it ere I goe to bed. / Doſt think't ſhall muſtie, vvhat's a hundred pound?”

9. sıfat Of a male animal such as a camel or an elephant: in musth.