Trustier vs Rustier - What's the difference?
trustier | rustier |
(trusty)
Reliable or trustworthy.
A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
* 1941 , James Howell Street, In my father's house
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 58:
*:The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.
(rusty)
Affected by rust.
Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Having red or reddish-brown hair.
Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
*{{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC
, title= Discolored and rancid; reasty.
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As adjectives the difference between trustier and rustier
is that trustier is comparative of trusty while rustier is comparative of rusty.trustier
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(head)trusty
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(er)Noun
(trusties)- We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
rustier
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(head)rusty
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(er)Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton, passage=Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.}}
