foisty, a.
(ˈfɔɪstɪ)
See also fusty.
[f. foist n.2 + -y1.]
Fusty, musty, mouldy. lit. and fig.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 151 b, Lest suche placis waxe filthy and foysty. 1566 Drant Horace's Sat. iv. H, As if..thou shouldst..sauce thy meate with foystie oyles. 1619 Favour Antiq. Tri. over Novelty xiii. 334 The foisty and fenowed Festiuall. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 285 Thrash not Wheat to keep untill March, lest it prove foisty. c 1750 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) Misc. Wks. (1812) 19 Well boh we'n had enough o this foisty matter; lets tawk o' summot elze. 1859 H. T. Ellis Hong Kong to Manilla 219 Pure Indians, and pure Chinese (if such a term can be applied to so ‘foisty’ a race as the latter). 1876 Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘As foisty as an old York church.’ |
Hence ˈfoisty v. intr., to become foisty or musty; implied in ˈfoistied ppl. a., ˈfoistiness, the quality or condition of being foisty.
| 1572 Huloet, Foistied, mustied or vinoed, mucidus. 1576 Baker Jewell of Health 38 Least..there may remayne some smatch of rottennesse or foystynes in the lycour dystilled. 1595 Lupton Thous. Notable Th. ii. 36 So the Wyne wyll be preserued from foystines and euyll sauor. |