English

Verb

fust ‎(third-person singular simple present fusts, present participle fusting, simple past and past participle fusted)

1. (obsolete) To decay.
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet , act IV scene 4

     Sure he that made us with such large discourse

     Looking before and after, gave us not

     That capability and godlike reason

     To fust in us unused.

Noun

fust ‎(plural fusts)

1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.

Anagrams

• STFU

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏst

Noun

fust n ‎(plural fusten, diminutive fustje n)

1. cask (e.g. containing beer)

Middle French

Alternative forms

• fut

Verb

fust

1. third-person singular past historic of estre

Old French

Etymology 1

see estre.

Alternative forms

• fu
• fut
• fud (early Old French)

Verb

fust

1. third-person singular past historic of estre

Descendants

• French: fut

Etymology 2

From Latin fustis.

Noun

fust m ‎(oblique plural fuz or futz, nominative singular fuz or futz, nominative plural fust)

1. wood (material from a plant)
2. wooden beam or plank
3. bole (part of a tree trunk)
   • circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:

     Ausi come escorce sanz fust

     Just like bark without a tree trunk

4. club (weapon)
   • circa 1181, Chrétien de Troyes, Roman de la Charrette:

     Escuz et hiaumes et haubers.
     Nes garantist ne fuz ne fers

     Shields and helmets and armor.
     Couldn't protect neither clubs nor swords

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *funstiz, whence also Old English fyst, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pnsti-, a variant of *pnksti- ‘fist’, *pn̥kʷ-sti ‎(“fist”), a derivative of *pénkʷe ‎(“five”). Cognate with Old Frisian fest, Old Saxon fūst (Dutch vuist) and with Russian пясть ‎(pjastʹ, “palm of the hand”), Polish pięść ‘fist’, Serbian pest 'fist' and prst 'finger'.

Noun

fūst f

1. fist

Descendants

• German: Faust