MUSTINESS

mustiness, must, moldiness

(noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

mustiness (countable and uncountable, plural mustinesses)

The characteristic of being musty.

Source: Wiktionary


Mus"ti*ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being musty.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

19 June 2025

ROOTS

(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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