fust

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.
2. The shaft (main body) of a column.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.
2. (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.

Adj

Nonstandard form of first.

Adv

Nonstandard form of first.

Synoniemen

column shaft

frustum

scape

stay bracket

Vertalingen

فوست

muffiger Geruch

fuste

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Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/fʌst/

Etymologie (Engels)

Verwant aan Frans: fût

Verwant aan Middelfrans: fuste

In summary

Borrowed 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”).