What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Fusty vs Foisty - What's the difference?

fusty | foisty |

As adjectives the difference between fusty and foisty

is that fusty is moldy or musty while foisty is mouldy, musty, fusty.

fusty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Moldy or musty.
  • Stale-smelling or stuffy.
  • (figuratively, by extension) old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.
  • (of wine) Tasting of the cask.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "fusty")

    Derived terms

    * fustily * fustiness

    foisty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • mouldy, musty, fusty
  • * 1669 , John Worlidge, Systema agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered :
    • Thrash not Wheat to keep untill March, lest it prove foisty .
  • * 2000 , Samuel Bamford, Martin Hewitt, Robert Poole, The Diaries of Samuel Bamford , page 2:
    • Papers 150 years old, mildewed, rotten and stinking like muck; and mouldy foisty old books dating from 1638.

    References

    *