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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
moldy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
moldy bread
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A cement foundation of a farmhouse was still standing, and a few moldy lilac bushes shielded the barracks from view.
▪ And, like an Edgar Allan Poe character, he harbors a penchant for graveyards, caskets and moldy cellars.
▪ The toxin produced by the fungus grows in moldy feed.
▪ This was fine compared to the moldy tents and dirt floors at tent city.
▪ To listener Glenn Gargas, the report was as stale as moldy bread.
▪ Today, courts still follow the spirit of these mean and moldy precedents.
▪ Wet, moldy basements may be more than a nuisance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moldy

Moldy \Mold"y\, Mouldy \Mould"y\, a. [Compar. Moldieror Mouldier; superl. Moldiest or Mouldiest.] [From Mold the growth of fungi.] Overgrown with, or containing, mold; smelling of mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moldy

also mouldy, 1570s, earlier mowly (late 14c.), from mold (n.2) + -y (2). Related: Moldiness.

Wiktionary
moldy

a. 1 covered with mold. 2 stale or musty. alt. 1 covered with mold. 2 stale or musty.

WordNet
moldy
  1. adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor" [syn: mouldy, musty]

  2. [also: moldiest, moldier]

Usage examples of "moldy".

Terrible heat and a pervasive moldy smell that kept us all sniffling in spite of the antiallergenic drugs that our modified endocrine systems fed us.

There were some citified moldies lounging around in front, not doing much of anything, and there was a black man beckoning people in from the sidewalk.

Most of the moldies were for sending a smart bomb to annihilate Wendy-Quuz and for never using Curdle Decryption again, but Willy and Gurdle-7 were arguing that the technology was too important to ignore.

He ate moldy flatbread, and belted baggy, musty cloth on himself for a second skin to keep off the cold.

Jenny pointed out two moldies whom she said were her close friends: Frangipane, who looked like an orchid blossom, and Ormolu, who looked like a kitschy ornamental cupid.

Having crossed the rimstone pool to wander at the other end of the chamber, he stood absolutely still, noting the acidic moldy odor of bat shit.

Speechless with astonishment and horror and revulsion, I stared at the Shahrpiryar Shams, the wrinkled, balding, mottled, shrunken, moldy, decrepit, unspeakably old grandmother.

The first contained rusted shovelheads, a disembodied pickax handle, chisels, an ancient windlass missing its rope, a pair of moldy boots, and a safe lamp with a cracked guard.

Audience members will be trading moldy Central Park anecdotes for 15, 20 minutes easy.

Once a child threw the end piece of a moldy cheese at him, and he barely caught it and wolfed it down even though it was so hard it was like eating rocks.

What I tell you comes not from moldy old scrolls, but from this secret legend handed down from General Fujiwara through our family: The general attacked Araki and Endo because he sought revenge on them for their part in Oda Nobunaga's murder.

A group of skungy sporeheads and slug-skaters were standing on the pavement by the ship talking to a couple of the Snooks moldies and buying camote, the sporeheads' drug of choice.

He'd stay away from camote, stop fucking moldies, and quit doing deals with sleazebags like Aarbie Kidd.

A group of skungy sporeheads and slug-skaters were standing on the pavement by the ship talking to a couple of the Snooks moldies and buying camote, the sporeheads' drug of choice.

He'd stay away from camote, stop fucking moldies, and quit doing deals with sleazebags like Aarbie Kidd.