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Webster 1913 Edition
Foisty
Foist′y
,Adj.
Fusty; musty.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Foisty
FOIST'Y
, a Fusty, which see.Definition 2024
foisty
foisty
English
Adjective
foisty (comparative foistier, superlative foistiest)
- mouldy, musty, fusty
- 1669, John Worlidge, Systema agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered:
- Thrash not Wheat to keep untill March, lest it prove foisty.
- 2000, Samuel Bamford, Martin Hewitt, Robert Poole, The Diaries of Samuel Bamford, page 2:
- Papers 150 years old, mildewed, rotten and stinking like muck; and mouldy foisty old books dating from 1638.
- 1669, John Worlidge, Systema agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered:
References
- “foisty”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.