rusty

UK /ˈɹʌsti/ US /ˈɹʌsti/
adj 6noun 1name 1

Definitions

adj

1

Marked or corroded by rust.

2

Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.

Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;

Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

3

Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.

Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.

4

Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby.

He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.

The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.

5

Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.

noun

1

A gun or in particular an old or worn one.

My angles dusty, two black hands on the rusty And I got uck from a peng ting, mad back but the chest busty

adj

1

Discolored and rancid; reasty.

rusty bacon

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