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Rusty
Definitions
- 1 Marked or corroded by rust.
- 2 Discolored and rancid; reasty.
"rusty bacon"
- 3 Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
"Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;"
- 4 Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
"Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements."
- 5 Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby. historical
"He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous."
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- 6 Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.
- 1 of the brown color of rust wordnet
- 2 ancient wordnet
- 3 covered with or consisting of rust wordnet
- 4 impaired in skill by neglect wordnet
- 1 A male given name.
- 1 A gun or in particular an old or worn one. Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncountable
"My angles dusty, two black hands on the rusty And I got uck from a peng ting, mad back but the chest busty"
Etymology
From Middle English rusty, from Old English rūstiġ (“rusty”), from Proto-Germanic *rustagaz (“rusty”), equivalent to rust + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian rusterch (“rusty”), West Frisian rustich, roastich (“rusty”), Dutch roestig (“rusty”), German Low German rusterig, rüsterig (“rusty”), German rostig (“rusty”), Swedish rostig (“rusty”).
Ellipsis of rusty one more often used for this, or from the general epithet rusty given to various particular firearm names—earlier both were applied in Cockney rhyming slang for other machines, including swords in their day, but the present coinage has not more than a loose connection to this and is from the preference for used or antique firearms due to their being easier or cheaper to obtain.
Variant form of resty; compare also reasty.
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