rusty
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#RUSTYCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#RUSTY rusty, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#RUSTYCategory:English terms derived from Old English#RUSTY rūstiġ (“rusty”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#RUSTYCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#RUSTY *rustagaz (“rusty”), equivalent to rust + -yCategory:English terms suffixed with -y#RUSTY. 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”).
Adjective
rusty (comparative rustier, superlative rustiest)Category:English lemmas#RUSTYCategory:English adjectives#RUSTYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUSTYCategory:Pages with entries#RUSTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RUSTY
- Marked or corroded by rust. [from 9th c.]
- Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. [from 14th c.]
- 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIV:
- 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;Category:English terms with quotations#RUSTY
- 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.Category:English terms with quotations#RUSTY
- Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity. [from 16th c.]
- 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#RUSTY
- (now chiefly historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#RUSTY) Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby. [from 17th c.]
- 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.Category:English terms with quotations#RUSTY
- 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.Category:English terms with quotations#RUSTY
- Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.
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Etymology 2
Ellipsis of rusty oneCategory:English ellipses#RUSTY 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.
Noun
rusty (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#RUSTYCategory:English nouns#RUSTYCategory:English uncountable nouns#RUSTYCategory:English uncountable nouns#RUSTYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUSTYCategory:Pages with entries#RUSTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RUSTY
- Category:Cockney rhyming slang(MLECategory:Multicultural London English#RUSTY, slangCategory:English slang#RUSTY) A gun or in particular an old or worn one.
- 2014 August 25, Dimzy of 67, “Outside”, 1:29–1:35:
- My angles dusty, two black hands on the rustyCategory:English terms with quotations#RUSTY
And I got uck from a peng ting, mad back but the chest busty
Etymology 3
Variant form of resty; compare also reasty.
Adjective
rusty (comparative more rusty, superlative most rusty)Category:English lemmas#RUSTYCategory:English adjectives#RUSTYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUSTYCategory:Pages with entries#RUSTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RUSTY
- Discolored and rancid; reasty. [from 16th c.]
Anagrams
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old EnglishCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Old English#RUSTYCategory:Middle English terms derived from Old English#RUSTY rustiġ; equivalent to rust + -yCategory:Middle English terms suffixed with -y#RUSTY.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrustiː/, /ˈruːstiː/Category:Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation#RUSTY
Adjective
rustyCategory:Middle English lemmas#RUSTYCategory:Middle English adjectives#RUSTYCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#RUSTYCategory:Pages with entries#RUSTYCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RUSTY
- rusty, rusted
- degenerate, uncouth
- (rareCategory:Middle English terms with rare senses#RUSTY) rust-coloured
- (rareCategory:Middle English terms with rare senses#RUSTY) unpolished, jarring
Descendants
References
- “rū̆stī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.