14 February 2015
fusty
[fuhs-tee]
adjective, fustier, fustiest.
1. having a stale smell; moldy; musty:
fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing.
2. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like:
They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house.
3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
Origin
Middle English
1350-1400; Middle English fusti, equivalent to fust (noun) < Old French: wine cask, tree trunk (< Latin fūstis stick, pole) + -y1
Related forms
fustily, adverb
fustiness, noun
Synonyms
1. close, stuffy, oppressive; smelly, malodorous.
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Examples from the web for fusty
– The fuming magicians with their fusty deceits ought to stop griping and get with the times.
Today’s aphorism
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
– Jack Kerouac, from On the Road.
On this day
14 February – Valentine’s Day
14 February – International book giving day, focussing on giving books to children.You can participate by 1) give a book to a friend or family member, 2) leave a book in a waiting room for children to read, or 3) donate a gently used book to a local library, hospital or shelter, or to an organization that distributes used books to children in need internationally. http://bookgivingday.com
14 February 1779 – death of Captain James Cook, British explorer. Made three major voyages in which he discovered many of the islands of the south pacific, including the east coast of Australia. Cooktown, Queensland, is named after him. The house he grew up in was relocated from Yorkshire, England, to Melbourne, Australia and is open to visits (now known as Captain Cook’s Cottage and is situated in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne). Died 14 February 1779 after being stabbed by Hawaiians who credited their Chief Kalanimanokahoowaha (Kanaina) with the kill. Captain Cook’s body was then subjected a funeral ritual that was normally reserved for a Chief. Born 27 October 1728.
14 February 1929 – St Valentine’s Day massacre when Chicago gangster, Al Capone’s Italian gang killed seven of Bugs Moran’s Irish gang.
14 February 1966 – Australia introduces decimal currency, replacing pounds, shillings and pence with dollars and cents.
14 February 1989 – Police raid Rocking Horse Records in Brisbane, Queensland (which had long been seen as a Police State under the leadership of Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen). Radio station 4ZZZ (another target of police raids during the 1980s) described the raid thus, ‘On this day in 1989 – Police raid long time 4ZZZ supporters Rocking Horse Records, then located at 158 Adelaide Street in the city. An undercover officer from the Licensing branch, came into the store seeking out rude records for a “wild valentine’s day party”, followed later that day by four uniformed police who raided the store. Owner Warwick Vere was charged with exhibiting and selling obscene material under the Vagrants, Gaming and Other Offences Act, but ultimately found not guilty. Albums included The Dead Kennedys “Give me Convenience” (featuring the classic ‘Too Drunk to F**k’), Guns n Roses “Appetite for Destruction” (available at many major chain stores at the time), the Hard-Ons “Dick Cheese” and The Champs “Do the Shag” (an instrumental album from the early 60s). In an interview with Gavin Sawford for Time Off Magazine, Dead Kennedy’s Jello Biafra commented: “if these attempts to shut down record stores because an instrumental band mention a type of carpet on their record helps to galvanise people to vote out the present administration, then by all means let’s see some more raids”.’ They also took a Sonic Youth album with the song, Master-Dik. Jello Biafra went on to state, ‘now if I’m a robber or a rapist in Brisbane, I should call the cops and report obscene records on the other side of town in store before I go out and commit a crime that harms real people, because obviously the cops don’t care about those kind of crimes’.
