English
lusty
Lusty comes from Middle English lusty ‘mirthful, pleasant, delicious, delightful’, and goes back to lust.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500lust
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500lusty‘mirthful, pleasant, delicious, delightful’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500lust
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500lusty‘mirthful, pleasant, delicious, delightful’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590same form
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto XI: “So louedſt thou the luſty Hyacinct, So louedſt thou…”
Formed from lust + -y
Proto-Germanic *lustuz ‘lust, desire, want’
Proto-West Germanic *lustu ‘desire, want, lust’
Old English lust ‘lust, pleasure, longing’
Middle English lust
English lust
Every English word from Middle English lust
Today it means
adj Exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong, healthy, robust; vigorous; full of sap or vitality.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English lust / lusty