Word of the Day

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4

Fusty

[fəs-tee]Part of speech: adjective

Origin: french, late 15th century

• Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy.
• Old-fashioned in attitude or style.

Examples of Fusty in a sentence

• Please open the windows in your room, because it's starting to smell fusty.
• The substitute teacher has a fusty reputation.

About Fusty

Aged wine is certainly desirable, but fusty has also come to mean anything old-fashioned, tired, and stale. The original aged meaning holds, but the additional connotation can apply literally to old and moldy food, and also figuratively in the personality department.

Did you Know?

Fusty might sound like a word made up to serve as a rhyme of dusty, but it has an enological (relating to wine) origin. The Old French word "fuste" means smelling of the cask. So if you've ever been in a wine cellar and smelled the particular aroma of aging wine, that's fusty.

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The signs of an early spring were everywhere, something that Napoleon Solo was relishing as he watched women begin to shed their cumbersome coats and sweaters in favor of figure hugging dresses, and even the newly popular slim capris, with their lightweight, umm…hmmm...

“What do you call those?” He asked absentmindedly of his partner.

Illya Kuryakin raised his eyes above the newspaper he was reading to look where Napoleon was looking.

“They are called shells.  I do not know why.” Napoleon’s expression showed that he hadn’t really expected the Russian to know the answer.

“How…?”

“I said don’t ask.”

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Perfect Pick-Me-Up - A Little DrabbleDo ya! - March 4th

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Sitting down on his well-worn sofa, he sighed. There were days when he wondered if retirement couldn’t come soon enough. He lived in a fast paced world which was rapidly becoming the province of the younger man.

Maybe it was time to bring things forward and make room for someone less old.

“Would you like a cup of tea, Alexander?” Veronica Waverly asked, as she kissed her husband’s cheek.

Mr Waverly smiled and nodded at his wife.

“That would be just the ticket, dear,” he replied.

A decent cuppa would soon revive him, and his resolve to continue the fight.

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