adv
Meaning 1
In a musty manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, translated by John Florio, The Second Chapter, “Of Repenting,” [...] nor are there any spirits, or very rare ones, which in growing old taste not sowrely and mustily.
- 1908, O. Henry, “The Shocks of Doom” in The Voice of The City: Further Stories of the Four Million, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914, pp. 96-7, He was either young or old; cheap lodging-houses had flavored him mustily; razors and combs had passed him by; in him drink had been bottled and sealed in the devil’s bond.
Meaning relationships
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