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fust¹

  • /fʌst/ US, UK
  • /fʊst/ Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌst

Where it comes from

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”).

noun fusts

  1. A strong musty smell; mustiness. the fust of old books & older cheese / nobody loves gossip like these salaried dudes
  2. The shaft (main body) of a column. Cherici, Giuseppe, & Sons, Volterra. A large alabaster vase, after the Etrurian style; executed in the exhibitors' manufactory in Volterra, […] The vase is placed on the fust of a column of the Tuscan order.

verb fusts · fusting · fusted

  1. intransitive, obsolete To turn mouldy, to decay. Sure he that made vs with ſuch large diſcourse / Looking before and after, gaue vs not / That capabilitie and god-like reaſon / To fvſt in vs vnvſed, […]
  2. intransitive Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored. VI. To prevent wine from fuſting, otherwiſe taſting of the caſk, and to give it both a taſte and flavour quite agreeable. Stick a lemon with cloves as thick as it can hold; hang it by the bung hole in a bag over the wine in the caſk for three or four days, and ſtop it very carefully for fear of its

fust²

Where it comes from

Possibly from Portuguese fusta (“fust”), from Latin fusta (“beam (of wood)”), from fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”); compare Middle French fuste.

noun fusts

  1. historical A type of small galley. The great hoste abode still till noone or one of the clocke, and then arose, not all, but about 80 or 100 ships, as gallies, galliasses, and fusts: and passed one after another before the towne and haven of Rhodes three miles off, and came to shore in a place nigh to land, called Perambolin, sixe mi

fust³

adjective

  1. nonstandard, not comparable Nonstandard form of first I allude to charcolling. Theirs Miss Creasy the dress maker after having the fashuns reglarly from Parris for some months was indust in a luv tif to shut her self up solus with the prevaling mode, but luckly the charcole went out fust.

adverb

  1. nonstandard, not comparable Nonstandard form of first She'd drink the gin fust and give him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try it on.

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noun type of small galley

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@misc{fust_2026,
  title = {fust},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fust},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}