fusty vs ruggy

fusty

adj
  • Stale-smelling or stuffy. 

  • Moldy or musty. 

  • Tasting of the cask. 

  • Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. 

ruggy

adj
  • fusty, frowsy 

  • Of, relating to, or resembling a rug. 

How often have the words fusty and ruggy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )