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单词 rusty
释义 rusty
I. \ˈrəstē, -ti\ adjective
(usually -er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English rūstig, from rūst rust + -ig -y — more at rust
1. : affected by or coated with rust : stiff in action as if clogged with rust
 < vast piles of rusty pig iron still covered with frost — Louis Bromfield >
2. : showing venerability often accompanied by an air of disability
 < stood beside the rusty old soldier at the parade >
3. : resembling or affected with rust
 < the apples were rusty and knotty — Stella Hyman >
4. archaic : crude or rough in manner : morose, sullen
5.
 a. : characterized by ineptitude or slowness usually through lack of practice or old age
  < how rusty I found myself — Archibald Marshall >
  < his slackened fingers and rusty mind — Sinclair Lewis >
 b. : impaired by disuse or neglect
  < his legal knowledge, while rusty, was broader than generally realized — Beverly Smith >
  < his English was a little rusty — Nevil Shute >
6.
 a.
  (1) : having or tinged with the color of iron rust
   < the leaves were turning rusty — Mary Webb >
   < rusty hair low on a stern brow — Claudia Cassidy >
  (2) : of the color rust
 b. : not clean : discolored
  < bales of cotton, rusty from exposure to the elements >
 c. : dulled in color or appearance by age and long use : revealing hard wear
  < a slender woman in a rusty black robe — Ralph Ellison >
  < wore … baggy trousers so short as to show his rusty boots — G.F.Milton >
7. : characterized by staleness : hoary, outmoded
 < followed by a magic-lantern show and some rusty jokes — R.L.Taylor >
8. : harsh and grating in tone as if from disuse : hoarse
 < gave a rusty chuckle as if unaccustomed to laughing — J.H.Wheelwright >
 < a rusty, willfully ancient voice — Edith Sitwell >
II. \ˈru̇sti, ˈrəsti\
variant of reasty
III. \ˈrəstē\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: alteration (influenced by rusty) (I) of resty
1. : restive
 < rusty horses >
2. chiefly dialect : having a surly manner : ill-tempered
 < rusty ever since that business over the oil shares — John Galsworthy >
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