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adj
Nonstandard form of first.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, nonstandard, not-comparable
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adv
Nonstandard form of first.
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Usage: alt-of, nonstandard, not-comparable
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noun
A strong musty smell; mustiness.
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noun
The shaft (main body) of a column.
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Topics: architecture
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noun
A type of small galley.
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Usage: historical
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
To turn mouldy, to decay.
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Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.
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Usage: intransitive
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History
From Middle English fust, from Old French fust (“wood; bole, tree trunk”) (modern French fût), from Latin fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bhew- (“to hit”) or *gwhen- (“to strike; to kill, slay”).
Possibly from Portuguese fusta (“fust”), from Latin fusta (“beam (of wood)”), from fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”); compare Middle French fuste.
Across languages
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