• IPA: /ˈɹʌsti/

rusty (comparative rustier, superlative rustiest)

1. Marked or corroded by rust. [from 9th c.]
2. Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. [from 14th c.]
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIV:

     Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

3. Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity. [from 16th c.]
4. (now, chiefly, historical) Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby. [from 17th c.]
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.

5. Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.

• French: rouillé
• German: rostig, verrostet
• Italian: arrugginito
• Portuguese: enferrujado, ferrugento
• Russian: ржа́вый
• Spanish: herrumbroso

• Spanish: herrumbroso, rojizo

• French: rouillé
• Italian: arrugginito
• Portuguese: enferrujado, destreinado
• Spanish: oxidado

rusty

1. Discolored and rancid; reasty. [from 16th c.]

   rusty bacon

1. A male given name