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Word Meanings - RUSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous. (more info) 1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat. 2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. in this dull

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Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous. (more info) 1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat. 2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown. Shak. 3. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon. 4. Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. "Rusty words." Piers Plowman. 5. Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood." Spenser. 6. Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.

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    To chagrin.

 

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