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All 4 letters words made out of fust

fust ufst fsut sfut usft suft futs ufts ftus tfus utfs tufs fstu sftu ftsu tfsu stfu tsfu ustf sutf utsf tusf stuf tsuf

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Definitions and meaning of fust

fust

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French fust (“wood; bole, tree trunk”) (modern French fût), from Latin fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”) or *gʷʰen- (“to strike; to kill, slay”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /fʌst/
• Rhymes: -ʌst

Noun

fust (plural fusts)

1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.
2. (architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.

Derived terms

• fusted (adjective)
• fustily
• fustiness
• fusty

Related terms

• fuster
• fustigate
• fustigation

Verb

fust (third-person singular simple present fusts, present participle fusting, simple past and past participle fusted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.
2. (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.

Etymology 2

Possibly from Portuguese fusta (“fust”), from Latin fusta (“beam (of wood)”), from fūstis (“knobbed stick, cudgel, club”); compare Middle French fuste.

Noun

fust (plural fusts)

1. (nautical, historical) A type of small galley.

Translations

Etymology 3

Adjective

fust (not comparable)

1. Nonstandard form of first.

Adverb

fust (not comparable)

1. Nonstandard form of first.

Anagrams

• STFU, UTFs

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fūstis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfust]

Noun

fust m (plural fusts or fustos)

1. beam

   Synonym: biga

2. shaft

   Synonym: tronc

Related terms

• fusta

Further reading

• “fust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From earlier fuste (“type of wine barrel”), from Middle Dutch fuust (“barrel”), borrowed from Old French fust (“wine barrel, piece of wood”), from Latin fusta, fustum (“block of wood, barrel”), from earlier fustis (“cludgel”). Cognate with English fust.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏst

Noun

fust n (plural fusten, diminutive fustje n)

1. cask (e.g. containing beer)

Middle French

Alternative forms

• fut

Verb

fust

1. third-person singular past historic of estre

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

fust

1. neuter of fus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

fust

1. neuter of fus

Old French

Etymology 1

see estre.

Alternative forms

• fu
• fut
• fud (early Old French)

Verb

fust

1. third-person singular past historic of estre

Descendants

• French: fut

Etymology 2

From Latin fustis.

Noun

fust oblique singular, m (oblique plural fuz or futz, nominative singular fuz or futz, nominative plural fust)

1. wood (material from a plant)
2. wooden beam or plank
3. bole (part of a tree trunk)
4. club (weapon)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fūsti.

Noun

fūst f

1. fist

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: fūst, vūst, voust
  • Alemannic German: Fuuscht, Pfuuscht
  • Bavarian: Faust
    • Cimbrian: vòista, bòista
  • Central Franconian: Fuus, Faust
    • Hunsrik: Faust
    • Luxembourgish: Fauscht
  • German: Faust
  • Yiddish: פֿויסט (foyst)