单词 | fusticate |
释义 | > as lemmasˈfusticate ˈfusticate v. (transitive) to make fusty; intransitive, to stay in a close stuffy atmosphere. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink [verb (intransitive)] > become fusty or musty > be in fusty atmosphere fusticate1839 1839 Blackwood's Mag. 46 734 When there was a sort of golden age..and shepherds had nothing to do but pipe..The country pipes now-a-days, are terribly fusticated with tobacco. 1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter iv. 102 ‘Are you going to stop—’ (I feel sure he meant ‘fusticating’, though he was too polite to say it) ‘in here all afternoon?’ he asked. < as lemmas |
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