mouldy
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mouldy
- /ˈmoʊldi/
Rhymes with -əʊldi
adjective mouldier · more mouldy · mouldiest · most mouldy · moldy
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Covered with mould.
Similar: mouldering, mucid, rotten
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Showing signs of neglect; disused.
Similar: disused, hoary, neglected, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, prehistoric, archaic, backward, backwards
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Worthless; lousy; rotten.
'Go cuddle up to your mouldy old papers,' she shouted at him. 'See how warm they'll keep you.' She slammed the door and made to walk off.
Similar: draffy, junky, two-bit, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish
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Gray-headed, whether from age or hair powder.
Let him be great, as e'er he will, / He's rotten at the heart's core still; / Yet counsel from his mouldy pate, / Supports the trembling chair of state, / And scatters with unsparing hand, / A thousand miseries o'er the land; […]
Similar: grizzly, hoary, silver-haired, gray / grey, gray-headed / grey-headed, grey-haired / gray-haired, grisly, grizzled, mouldy, silvery-haired, white-haired
noun mouldies · moldy
- A torpedo. I knew something of gunnery once, but now I'm on the shelf. I myself would risk the mouldies and fight at close quarters—we have the legs of Fritz and could choose our own range—but in-fighting means tremendous risks, and the dear stupid old public would howl for my head if the corresponding losses
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adj covered with mould
| Español | mohoso |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 곰팡이가 핀 gompang'iga pin |
| 日本語 | かびた kabita |
| 中文 | 發霉的 fāméi de |
| Português | embolorado, mofado, bolorento |
| Français | moisi |
| Deutsch | schimmlig, verschimmelt |
| Italiano | ammuffito, mucido |
| Română | muced |
| Русский | заплесневе́лый zaplesnevélyj, заплесневе́вший zaplesnevévšij |
| Tiếng Việt | mốc, mốc meo |
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