英文词源
- fusty
- fusty: see beat
- fusty (adj.)
- "stale-smelling," late 14c., from French fusté "fusty, tasting of the cask," from Old French fuste, fuist "wine cask," originally "stick, stave, wood" (Modern French fût), from Latin fustis "staff, stick of wood" (see fustigate). Related: Fustiness. Fustilugs was 17c. slang for "a woman of gross or corpulent habit" [OED], later generally in dialect for a big-boned person.
中文词源
来自古法语fuste, 瓶塞，酒塞，来自拉丁语fustis, 短棍，木棍，其原义为瓶塞味的。后来引申词义霉臭的，守旧的。比较corked.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：fusty 词源，fusty 含义。
