fust

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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fʌst/

Etymology

Cognate with French: fût

Cognate with Middle French: 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”).

Synonyms

column shaft

frustum

scape

stay bracket

Translations

فوست

muffiger Geruch

fuste

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