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7-letter words (4 found)

FAUNIST,FIAUNTS,FUSTIAN,INFAUST,

6-letter words (6 found)

FAINTS,FIAUNT,FITNAS,FUSAIN,TUINAS,UNFITS,

5-letter words (32 found)

AITUS,ANTIS,ASTUN,AUNTS,FAINS,FAINT,FASTI,FAUNS,FAUTS,FIATS,FITNA,INUST,NAIFS,NATIS,SAINT,SATIN,SAUNT,SNAFU,SNIFT,STAIN,STAUN,SUINT,TAINS,TIANS,TINAS,TUANS,TUFAS,TUINA,TUNAS,UNAIS,UNFIT,UNITS,

4-letter words (54 found)

AINS,AITS,AITU,ANIS,ANTI,ANTS,ANUS,AUFS,AUNT,FAIN,FANS,FAST,FATS,FAUN,FAUT,FIAT,FINS,FIST,FITS,FUNS,FUST,ISNA,ITAS,NAIF,NATS,NITS,NUTS,SAFT,SAIN,SANT,SATI,SAUT,SIFT,SNIT,STUN,SUIT,SUNI,TAIN,TAIS,TANS,TAUS,TIAN,TINA,TINS,TUAN,TUFA,TUIS,TUNA,TUNS,UNAI,UNIS,UNIT,UTAS,UTIS,

3-letter words (46 found)

AFT,AIN,AIS,AIT,ANI,ANS,ANT,ATS,AUF,FAN,FAS,FAT,FIN,FIT,FUN,IFS,INS,ITA,ITS,NAS,NAT,NIS,NIT,NUS,NUT,SAI,SAN,SAT,SAU,SIF,SIN,SIT,SUI,SUN,TAI,TAN,TAS,TAU,TIN,TIS,TUI,TUN,UNI,UNS,UTA,UTS,

2-letter words (19 found)

AI,AN,AS,AT,FA,FU,IF,IN,IS,IT,NA,NU,SI,ST,TA,TI,UN,US,UT,

You can make 161 words from fustian according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fustian

fustian

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English fustian (“type of fabric, probably made from cotton, flax, or wool; piece of fustian spread over a bed or mattress”) [and other forms], from Old French fustaine, fustaigne (modern French futaine), from Medieval Latin fūstāneum, from (pannus) fūstāneus or (tela) fūstānea, of disputed origin.

Sense 3 (“inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing”) is possibly from the fact that the fabric was sometimes used to make cushion- and pillowcases, thus suggesting that the speech or writing is “padded” or “stuffed”; compare bombast. The relationship between sense 4 (“hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages with egg yolk, lemon, and spices”) and the fabric is unclear.

The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfʌs.tɪ.ən/, /ˈfʌs.tʃən/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfʌs.t͡ʃən/
  • Hyphenation: fust‧i‧an

Noun

fustian (usually uncountable, plural fustians)

  1. Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.
  2. A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen.
  3. (figuratively) Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also (archaic), incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
    Synonyms: aureation, (obsolete) bombard phrase, grandiloquence, magniloquence, purple prose
  4. (alcoholic beverages, archaic) Chiefly in rum fustian: a hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages (as beer, gin, and sherry or white wine) with egg yolk, lemon, and spices.

Hyponyms

  • (class of fabric): beaverteen

Derived terms

  • fustianed
  • fustianism
  • fustianist
  • fustianize

Translations

Adjective

fustian (comparative more fustian, superlative most fustian)

  1. Made out of fustian (noun sense 1).
  2. Of a person, or their speech or writing: using inflated, pompous, or pretentious language; bombastic; grandiloquent; also (obsolete) using incoherent or unintelligible language.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:verbose
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:concise
  3. (obsolete)
    1. Imaginary; invented.
    2. Useless; worthless.

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References

Further reading

  • fustian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “fustian”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “fustian”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Faustin, faunist, fiaunts, infaust

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • ffustean, ffusteyn, fostyon, fusten, fusteyn, fustyan, fustyane

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fustaine, from Medieval Latin fūstāneum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fusˈtɛi̯n/, /ˈfustin/
  • (pseudo-learned) IPA(key): /fustiˈaːn/, /ˈfustjan/

Noun

fustian (uncountable)

  1. A cloth made of cotton, flax or wool, being the ancestor of modern fustian.
  2. A piece of such cloth used as a bedspread.

Descendants

  • English: fustian
  • ⇒ Scots: foustie

References

  • “fustian, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org