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fust

Pronunciation: /fʌst/

The English word “fust” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.
  2. The shaft (main body) of a column.
  3. A type of small galley.

verb

  1. To turn mouldy, to decay.
  2. Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.

Etymology

From Middle English fust, from Old French fust (“wood; bole, tree trunk”) (modern French fût), from Latin fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”) or *gʷʰen- (“to strike; to kill, slay”).

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