Crossword clues for rusty
rusty
- Benched too long
- Son in the "National Lampoon's Vacation" series
- Nickname for a redhead
- Like much junkyard metal
- Soundgarden "___ Cage"
- Not in good form
- No longer adequate
- Needing some practice
- Needing practice
- Like old, crumbly metal
- In need of practice
- In need of a refresher
- Impaired from disuse
- Former Met Staub
- Out of practice
- Out of top form
- Oxidized
- In need of brushing up
- Like many older Americans' French or Spanish
- Impaired by neglect
- Slugger Staub
- Neglected
- Lacking practice
- Outmoded
- Out of practice, well-behaved prisoner loses head
- Out of practice, rugby guy's no amateur
- Incompletely operate part of farm being out of practice
- Way out of practice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rusty \Rust"y\, a. [AS. rustig.] [Compar. Rustier; superl. Rustiest.]
Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
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Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
[Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown.
--Shak. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] ``Rusty words.''
--Piers Plowman.Rust-colored; dark. ``Rusty blood.''
--Spenser.-
Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
The rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces.
--Hawthorne. (Bot.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English rustig; see rust (n.) + -y (2). Cognate with Frisian roastich, Middle Dutch roestich, Dutch roestig, Old High German rostag, German rostig. "In the 16th and 17th centuries frequently used as a term of general disparagement" [OED]. Of bodily skills, "impaired by neglect," from c.1500; of mental qualities, accomplishments, etc., first attested 1796.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Affected by rust. 2 Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. 3 Having red or reddish-brown hair. 4 Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Rusty may refer to something covered with rust or with a rust (color). Rusty is also a nickname for people who have red hair, have a rust-hued skin tone, or are named Russell.
Rusty may refer to:
Rusty is a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1994 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band earned a 1996 Juno Award nomination in the category Best Alternative Album for Fluke.
Rusty is the full-length debut album from Christian pop punk band Slick Shoes.
Rusty is the first and only full-length album by American math rock band Rodan. It was released in April 1994 on Quarterstick Records. It was engineered by Bob Weston. The album is named after Bob's nickname, "Rusty".
The Rusty film series comprises eight American films produced for young audiences between 1945 and 1949 by Columbia Pictures. Child actor Ted Donaldson stars as Danny Mitchell in the series, which relates the adventures of a German Shepherd dog named Rusty. The role of Rusty was played by Ace the Wonder Dog in the first feature, Adventures of Rusty (1945). A police dog named Rip took over the role for the second film, The Return of Rusty (1946). In the later films Rusty was played by Flame, a charismatic dog star who was featured in three separate series.
Though the Rusty films were B-movies primarily shown as the second half of a double-bill, the films usually had a humanist subtext and subtly promoted positive values on social issues of the era. Among the directors of the series was John Sturges who subsequently became famous for directing The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Among the regular cast members was child actor David Ackles, who appeared in six of the eight films.
Usage examples of "rusty".
Even the steadily increasing snow did not cut into the glare of the lights very much, or change the illusion that the whole works, from the crappy siding to the pair of tin woodstove stacks sticking acrooked out of the roof to the single rusty gas-pump out front, was simply set-dressing.
His helmet was of old rusty iron, but the vizor was brass, which, tainted by his breath, corrupted into copperas, nor wanted gall from the same fountain, so that, whenever provoked by anger or labour, an atramentous quality, of most malignant nature, was seen to distil from his lips.
Now the surface had a rusty sheen to it, mirroring a redness in the sky that came, Ralph Bales believed, from garbage pumped into the air by refineries outside of Wood River, across the Mississippi.
But where would Beeker have gone, here on this rusty former capital of the Human Alliance?
It was a large, darkly-panelled, stone-flagged room with enormous adze-cut smoke-blackened beams and walls behung with ancient and rusty suits of armour, ancient and rusty weapons of all kinds and scores of armorial bearings, some of which could have -been genuine.
Mud pies decorated with caragana pods, the broken crockery and rusty spoons they had collected, the wooden boxes wedged between the tree trunks for cupboards.
The Discovery leaked black diesel smoke from its rusty anus and the inappropriate pale blue clunky interior designed by Sir Terence Conran was filthy and falling to bits, but Cicely felt it would do the job.
Pat Brennan led him past a balding cuss in rusty black who was seated in the parlor with another deputy.
Inside, Judy Cuttle had done what she could to turn a mobile home into an Edwardian farmhouse, complete with antimacassars and rusty photos in bamboo frames of geezers in waistcoats and glum women in cameoes.
She sat up and tried to swallow the bitter disappointment when she recognized the rusty old pickup that belonged to Dobie Hix.
As she stood for a few moments endeavouring to overcome the agony that this strange adventure had excited, as well as to consider if it was not possible, by timely interference, to avert the fate that awaited this victim of perhaps unjust resentment, she heard a noise like the undrawing of rusty bolts, which was followed by the sound of footsteps, apparently proceeding towards her.
There, out in the cold gray-green Atlantic, he saw the rusty bow of the Santo Fado slip beneath the waves.
Mistress Fawcett attempts to move the shutters of the other window, but the hinges are rusty and defy her feeble strength.
He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward.
The iron framework was ornamented at intervals with outbreaks of iron leafage and iron fruitage, which had grown rusty with time.