a. Also fungousy. [f. FUNGUS + -Y1.] a. Covered with a fungous growth. b. Of a fish: Affected with a fungous disease.
1856. Canning, in Hare, Two Noble Lives (1893), II. 89. Books, too, have to be wiped all over once a day, and despatch-boxes not opened for some time assume the appearance of a bottle of curious old port—white and fungus-y.
1880. F. Buckland, in Scotsman (1883), 10 Nov., 6/6. He received a pike … which after a while became fungousy.
