musty

English

Etymology

must +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈmʌstɪ]
Rhymes: -ʌsti

Adjective

musty (comparative mustier, superlative mustiest)

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.

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: barolento 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)

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)

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