Definition of "mouldiness" [mouldiness]

• The state or quality of being mouldy. (noun)

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• "There was a lean, saturnine lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. there that she knew as Mouldy James; she was not sure if the mouldiness was his nature or whether it meant that he had specialised in torpedoes."
• "A day or two before, the Scotch Gardener had brought Saxon to see us, and a new kind of mouldiness that had got into his grape vines to show to John."
• "Although she had been lying in the strong sunshine, the flesh was quite good, when we had scraped away a little mouldiness."