rusty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite covered with or consisting of rust
    • a rusty machine
    • rusty deposits
  2. adjective satellite of the brown color of rust
    rust-brown; rust.
  3. adjective satellite impaired in skill by neglect
    out of practice.
  4. adjective satellite ancient
    hoary.
    • hoary jokes

WordNet

Rust"y adjective
Etymology
AS. rustig.
Wordforms
comparative Rustier ; superlative Rustiest
Definitions
  1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
  2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. less skillful than when in continued practise
    [Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown. Shak.
  3. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
  4. Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. Obs. or Prov. Eng. "Rusty words." Piers Plowman.
  5. Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood." Spenser.
  6. Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
    The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.
  7. (Bot.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

Webster 1913