Rusty

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ÊŒsti

Origin

rust + -y

Full definition of rusty

Adjective

1. Affected by rust.
2. Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
• 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody Chapter 1, 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. Having red or reddish-brown hair.
4. Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
• 2010, December 29, Sam Sheringham, Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton, 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.
5. Discolored and rancid; reasty.
   rusty bacon

Derived terms

• rusty nail

Anagrams

• yurts