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Old-fashioned vs Musty - What's the difference?

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Old-fashioned is a related term of musty.


As adjectives the difference between old-fashioned and musty

is that old-fashioned is of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue while musty is having a stale odor.

As a noun old-fashioned

is a whiskey-based cocktail.

old-fashioned

English

Alternative forms

* old fashioned

Adjective

  • Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.

    • Usage notes

    * Said of all kinds of things including words, houses, places, chimneys, character traits, cookware, education, music, or style.

    Noun

    (wikipedia old-fashioned) (en noun)
  • A whiskey-based cocktail.
  • * 1996 , Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
    • At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds .

    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.