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Musty vs Foisty - What's the difference?

musty | foisty |

As adjectives the difference between musty and foisty

is that musty is having a stale odor while foisty is mouldy, musty, fusty.

musty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a stale odor.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.

    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.

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