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# mouldy

«mouldy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Covered with mould, a soft, furry fungus that grows on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (mouldy, mouldier, mouldiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Covered with mould, a soft, furry fungus that grows on old food or in damp places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#m1)

2) (informal, UK) Old, mean or nasty: «a mouldy old jumper». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: mould is a fungus; it grows best in warm, damp places and is a decomposer that breaks down old food. In safety and health: don't eat mouldy food, don't sniff it (spores can make you ill), and throw it away; damp rooms can get mouldy walls. Phrases: «mouldy bread», «go mouldy».

### examples

- The bread went mouldy after a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#x1)
- Don't eat that – it's mouldy! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#x2)
- We grew mouldy bread in a bag for our science experiment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#x3)
- The bathroom wall is mouldy because it's damp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#x4)
- Mouldy fruit is fuzzy and green or white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#x5)
- Throw away the mouldiest strawberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#x6)
- Then it took them to another lake, into which they cast a mouldy log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/#x7)

### note

Spelling: «mouldy» in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada; «moldy» in the USA. Comparative: mouldier, mouldiest. Noun: mould / mold.

### In the corpora

- [Make hay while the sun shines, because wet hay goes mouldy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/4/)
- [Dishes should be dried with a clean dry towel, because dishes put away wet can go mouldy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mouldy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouldy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.