rusty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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”).
Base: rust
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rustier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rustiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked or corroded by rust.
pos: adj
gloss: Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
pos: adj
examples: 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;
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.
gloss: Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.
The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.
gloss: Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.
pos: adj
gloss: A gun or in particular an old or worn one.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
uncountable
examples: My angles dusty, two black hands on the rusty
And I got uck from a peng ting, mad back but the chest busty
Derived words: better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail
nonrusty
ride rusty
rustily
rustiness
Rusty
rustyback
rusty blackbird
rusty dusty
rusty guts
rustyhood
rustyish
rusty-margined guan
rusty nail
rusty pitohui
rusty sheriff's badge
rusty-spotted cat
rusty thicketbird
rusty tinamou
rusty trombone
turn rusty
unrusty
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: صَدِئ
roman: ṣadiʔ
lang: Armenian
word: ժանգոտ
roman: žangot
lang: Old Armenian
word: ժանգոտ
roman: žangot
lang: Belarusian
word: іржа́вы
roman: iržávy
lang: Central Bikol
word: matakla
lang: Bulgarian
word: ръждясал
roman: rǎždjasal
lang: Catalan
word: rovellat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 生鏽的 /生锈的
roman: shēngxiù de
lang: Cornish
word: gossenek
lang: Czech
word: rezavý
lang: Danish
word: rusten
lang: Dutch
word: roestig
lang: Dutch
word: verroest
lang: Esperanto
word: rusta
lang: Finnish
word: ruosteinen
lang: French
word: rouillé
lang: Galician
word: ferruxento
lang: Galician
word: enferruxado
lang: Georgian
word: ჟანგიანი
roman: žangiani
lang: German
word: rostig
lang: German
word: verrostet
lang: Greek
word: σκουριασμένος
roman: skouriasménos
lang: Hungarian
word: rozsdás
lang: Icelandic
word: ryðgaður
lang: Irish
word: meirgeach
lang: Italian
word: arrugginito
lang: Japanese
word: さびた
roman: sabita
lang: Khmer
word: ច្រែះ
roman: creh
lang: Latin
word: rōbīginōsus
lang: Latin
word: aerūginōsus
lang: Luxembourgish
word: raschteg
lang: Macedonian
word: ’рѓосан
roman: ’rǵosan
lang: Macedonian
word: за’рѓан
roman: za’rǵan
lang: Middle English
word: rusty
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: rusten
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: rusten
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: rusta
lang: Old English
word: rūstiġ
lang: Polish
word: zardzewiały
lang: Polish
word: rdzawy
lang: Portuguese
word: enferrujado
lang: Portuguese
word: ferrugento
lang: Romanian
word: ruginit
lang: Russian
word: ржа́вый
roman: ržávyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: рђав
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: хрђав
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rđav
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: hrđav
lang: Slovak
word: hrdzavý
lang: Spanish
word: herrumbroso
lang: Swedish
word: rostig
lang: Thai
word: เป็นสนิม
roman: bpen-sà-nǐm
lang: Turkish
word: paslanmış
lang: Turkish
word: paslı
lang: Ukrainian
word: іржа́вий
roman: iržávyj
lang: Unami
word: màxkalët
lang: Unami
word: màxkalësi
lang: Venetan
word: rùxene
lang: Vietnamese
word: rỉ
lang: Waray-Waray
word: taoyon
lang: Welsh
word: rhydlyd