10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUSTY»
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fusty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Hornpipe Blanket: A Pompey Saga
Unmarried too! But that's another story. ... The Blanket Hornpipe, book one in the black comedy, The Pompey Saga series, straddles the ebbing Victorian and incoming Edwardian period.
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
Cited by Mr. Steevens. FURNIMENT. Italian. Furniture, decoration. Fornimento,
Lo where they spyde, with speedie whirling pace, One in a charet of straunge/
urnunent. Spent. F. Q. IV. iii. 38. To FUST. To grow fusty, musty, or mouldy. Fusty
and ...
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... pliant, ductile, adaptable Ana tractable, amenable (see OBEDIENT) Ant
refractory —Con intractable, recalcitrant, ungovernable, »unruly malodorous,
stinking, fetid, noisome, putrid, rank, rancid, fusty, must) mean having an
unpleasant smell.
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
Fusty seemed to become aware of Vincent's presence for the first time. He
inspected him with a shrewd glance, then looked at Lena and raised his
eyebrows interrogatively. She shook her head. “I thought not,” Fusty said. “ Some'
ow I seemed ...
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How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie, a ...
Whatever their gender, a fustilugs is always someone who is slow and heavy (the
lug part), with habits that are at best unpleasant and at worst positively foul (fusty
conjures up smells of damp, mould, staleness and a definite lack of freshness).
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
5. Fustilarian. A cant term of contempt, a fusty stinking fellow; fusty itself is used in
the same contemptuous way. See below. Away, you scullion I you rampallian !
you fustilarian ! I'll tickle your catastrophe. 2 Hen. IV. ii. 1. There is no probability ...
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The Marx Brothers: A Bio-bibliography
The first two were wrong numbers, the third was an acquaintance of mine, J. J.
Fusty, who runs a large penwiper factory in Hoboken. "Come to me quick,
Inspector," he pleaded. I rushed right over. A butler ushered me into the drawing
room ...
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
FUSTILARIAN. A cant term of contempt, a fusty stinking fellow ; fusty itself is used
in the same contemptuous way. See below. Away, you scullion ! you rampallian !
you fustilarian ! I'll tickle your catastrophe. 2 Hen. IF, ii, 1. There is no probability ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1888
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99 Cent Adventure Time Stories Photo Finish for a Dame
Good riddance, I say,” Mrs. Fusty said. “Well, goodby.” The evening journals
made it quite plain to all that Amberson G. Cronkite of Boston, Mass., was beyond
a doubt a most fiendish murderer, and that the trial would be a matter of dull
routine.
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Also written fustiluggs Dev.; fusty-lugs Wm. w.Yks. Lin.1 n.Lin.l Som. n.Dev. [fu'
stilugz, fe'stilugz] A term of abuse; a big coarse person, a dirty slattern; a dirty
child. Wm. Thoo gits a reg'lar lal fusty-lugs (B.K.). n.Yks.12 n.Yks.' Thoo's a
fustilugs.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUSTY»
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Soundscapes review – feeble, wrong-headed, and unambitious
If anything, the music pushes the painting back in time, diverting attention from its extreme singularity by evoking familiar plainsong and fusty ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
She Stoops to Conquer, Theatre Royal Bath, review: 'delightful'
Instead of fusty wigs and foppery, we get a world of plus-fours, gramophones and Charlestons with Union Jack bunting and stag heads on the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
How to be the best tressed this season
If letting one's hair down is a striptease in miniature — the cliché of the fusty, prim woman who transforms into a chill babe when she pulls out ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
Moscow is eager to get hip
New directors are shaking up the fusty Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Tretyakov State Gallery by organising shows of international ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
Gentlemen's clubs: the importance of being men-only
... to unload a truck full of contempt on the silver-topped members of this 'old fusty club', this 'special place for rich old white men to convene'. «Spiked, Jul 15»
Who'd want to join the Garrick Club?
Whenever I have been there, as a guest of a member, I have found it to be fusty and uncomfortable, with all the worst features that used to ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Karl Lagerfeld on Fur, Fendi and Couture
WWD: Was fur very fusty and bourgeois when you started? K.L.: It was horrible, horrible, because remember even in the Seventies and still in ... «WWD, Jul 15»
Language as a weapon, Part 5
Fustilarian, the best I can determine, comes from the word fusty, which means "smelling of mildew or decay," or simply old-fashioned; either way ... «Huntsville Item, Jul 15»
Peatlands burn as gamekeepers create landscape fit for grouse …
This is an attractive prospect for the new wave of grouse moor owners bringing market forces to the once fusty world of shooting. In the past ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
“So it's fusty archaeologists and slimy local government officials for you, then,” Arto says to encourage his friend. If you know Çetin İkmen (and ... «Today's Zaman, Jul 15»
