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5 lettersPronunciation /mʌst/Part of speech nounSorted hmstuStarts with MEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A periodic state of heightened hormones and aggression in male elephants.

Word origin

Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi मस्त (mast) / Urdu مَسْت (mast, “drunk, intoxicated; lustful”); and also from Middle Hindi مَسْت (mst /⁠mast⁠/)), and from its etymon Classical Persian مَسْت (mast, “(adjective) drunk, intoxicated; (literary) in rut; of an elephant: in musth; (noun) drunkard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to be wet; to become wet”).

Used in a sentence

  • No animal in the world is so dangerous as an elephant in must.
  • I couldn't see the driver, and across my mind it rushed / That the Commissariat elephant had suddenly gone musth.
  • I have seen men deal with enraged elephants and live; but never was man yet born of woman that met my lord the elephant in his musth and lived to tell of the taming.

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