musty的意思|musty的解释-里氏词典

musty ['mʌstɪ]

a. 发霉的, 霉臭的, 落伍的

musty
mustier, mustiest

[ adj ]

covered with or smelling of mold

<adj.all>

moldy bread

a moldy (or musty) odor

stale and unclean smelling

<adj.all>

Musty \Mus"ty\, a. [Compar. {Mustier}; superl. {Mustiest}.]
[From L. mustum must; or perh. fr. E. moist. Cf. {Must}, n.,
{Moist}.]
1. Having the rank, pungent, offensive odor and taste which
substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist
weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn;
musty books. --Harvey.

2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale.

The proverb is somewhat musty. --Shak.

3. Dull; heavy; spiritless. ``That he may not grow musty and
unfit for conversation.'' --Addison.

"I know just about where everything is - unless somebody moves it," said Beherns, who moves gracefully through the narrow and twisted passages in his workshop where the musty smell of cedar and the spicy aroma of freshly worked pine fill the air.
Lozoraitis is the man in charge of the musty, 40-room mansion on 16th Street, a mile from the Soviet embassy, which serves as the legation of free Lithuania, as it has for nearly 70 years.
The Munsters live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in a musty Gothic mansion.
I gave up on musty Glavlit without a struggle, but insisted on going to Pravda, which was not his idea of the cutting edge.
Croatians have their musty maps and they have their claims for land that is historically theirs; however, they are focusing on the reality of today.
For more than 50 years, the hoard has lain undisturbed in 30 cardboard boxes in a musty storeroom at the Royal Botanical Gardens.
Kemmons Wilson drove from here to Washington, D.C., with his wife and five children, checking into a succession of musty motels and paying an extra $2 for each of the children.
After a six-year hiatus, the company is hauling out that musty but still memorable advertising slogan to try to make iced-tea lovers think Nestea instead of Lipton.
College professors often use sabbaticals to write books, launch archeological digs or comb through musty archives.
German Black Pepper Rat Knuckle (rat shoulders, actually; the knuckles are too small) tastes like a musty combination of chicken and pork.
They make pilgrimages to the sites of his battlefield triumphs and prowl musty libraries for their hero's artifacts, but they aren't making much headway.
Only a musty, oily scent remains in the padded box where it is kept.

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