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mustily

adv

Etymology

From musty + -ly.

  1. derived from moiste
  2. inherited from mosty
  3. derived from *mews-✻ — “damp; moss”
  4. derived from mustum — “unfermented or partially fermented grape juice, must; new wine”
  5. derived from mūceō — “to be mouldy or musty”
  6. derived from mūcidus — “mouldy, musty”
  7. derived from *mucidus✻
  8. derived from moiste — “clammy, damp, moist, wet”
  9. derived from muste
  10. inherited from musty
  11. suffixed as mustily — “musty + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a musty manner.

    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, translated by John Florio, The Second Chapter, “Of Repenting,” […] nor are there any spirits, or very rare ones, which in growing old taste not sowrely and mustily.
    • All this is but a light-headed understanding now; I mean, why so melancholy? thou lookest mustily, methinks.
    • My little guide steered me up a filthy, crooked, crazy staircase to an upper floor so lighted, and into a room that smelt of sawdust, shavings, glue, shellac, rancidly-oiled metal, and all kinds of rankly or mustily malodorous muddle.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA