musthy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of musty (“in musth”).
Example Sentences
- "In nature, almost all elephants avoid musthy males—with the exceptions of other musthy males (with whom they fight) and receptive females (with whom they mate). Musthy males do not always confine their rage to other elephants, however, as zoo keepers and white rhinos can attest."
- "I have it filed away that in the future, no matter how free, no matter how fascinating the squiggles on the bottle, I shall avoid Russian vodka as if it were a musthy elephant."
- "An hour ago, I had taken the truck out to collect the musthy Smokey’s dung in the pitch-black. A lioness on the prowl made for a tense dung safari. A while later, Smokey returned to the water hole with his musthy deliberations, as a lazy lioness roared to the east."
Inflected Forms
more musthy (comparative)
most musthy (superlative)