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adjective

Rusty adj. (compar. rustier; superl. rustiest)

Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.

Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. "(Hector,) in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown."

Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.

Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "Rusty words."

Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood."

Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. "The rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces."

(Bot.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

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Etymology of 'Rusty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rusty" Quotes from Famous Books

... daughter of Henry Carpenter, bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Winesburg, and lived with him in a gloomy old house far out at the end of Buckeye Street. The house was surrounded by pine trees and there was no grass beneath the trees. A rusty tin eaves-trough had slipped from its fastenings at the back of the house and when the wind blew it beat against the roof of a small shed, making a dismal drumming noise that sometimes persisted ...

— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... my imagination is a little rusty—it's so long since I used it," she said. "I dare say your claim to sympathy is just as strong as mine. It all depends on the way we look at it. Sit down here and tell me ...

— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... reason, was being jolted away in a great wagon. The young man snatched off his hat and began to examine it. It was a high-crowned hat that had been originally bought at Zimmermann's, but had become worn and rusty, was covered with dents and stains, slit and short of a brim, a frightful object in short. Yet its owner, far from feeling his vanity wounded, was suffering ...

— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne

... activity aboard the destroyers. Directly, through his glass, Jack sighted nine rusty, English tramp steamers, of perhaps eight thousand tons, and a big liner auxiliary flying ...

— The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets - The Fall of the German Navy • Robert L. Drake

... so low beneath her as I put myself when in imagination I took advantage of her noble trustfulness, took the fortune that I knew she must possess in her own right, and left her to find herself, in the zenith of her beauty and genius, bound to poor rusty, ...

— George Silverman's Explanation • Charles Dickens

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