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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mothy

Mothy \Moth"y\, a. Infested with moths; moth-eaten. ``An old mothy saddle.''
--Shak.

Wiktionary
mothy

a. 1 infested with moths 2 moth-eaten

WordNet
mothy
  1. adj. worn or eaten away by (or as if by) moths; "moth-eaten blankets" [syn: moth-eaten]

  2. infested with moths

  3. [also: mothiest, mothier]

Usage examples of "mothy".

The heavy driving coat, no matter how mothy, would be better than nothing.

In the mothy gray of TV rooms, we pulled back the drapes, and peered out windows into a yellowed sunlight.

Frazier and I had flushed everything from weasels to a mothy brown bear.

She wore a shapeless blue dress that hung like a sack on her plump, stocky body, and a mothy old gray sweater with bulging pockets.

The performance featured a couple of Mossolian hounds and two toothless mothy lions.

Discarded scenery and props were littered about, and there was a rack of old costumes mothy with age.

Old women often look so mothy, put away for the summer without being brushed.