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fousty a also fausty [phonetics unavailable]. EDD fusty; fousty
Gl Ha W So D. Mouldy; musty; gone sour; having a bad smell. Cp SMATCHY.
1925 Dial Notes v, 330 Fausty—musty or mouldy; of tea
or bread. 1937 DEVINE 22 ~ Sour, decaying. P 148-61 Look at the fousty clothes on him. T
141/66-652 [This old cape ann] was fousty. He was one of them old timers, red
flannel linin's in un, see. A kind of greenish colour, they was. T 222-66 [The other kind
of jam] often has [foust] on it after a few months ... in other words it's fousty. C
69-31 My mother called a dress she found in an old trunk fousty—having a stale, bad
odour. C 24-71 [The soup is] rather smatchy and I was going to give it to the cow, but
you can have it if you want it. (Smatchy means sour or fousty).
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