dusty
/ˈdʌsti/ adjective, noun, proper noun
Forms dustier dustiest dusties
- adjective Covered with dust. “a dusty carpet”
- adjective Powdery and resembling dust.
- adjective Grey or greyish. “a dusty peach color”
- adjective (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
- adjective (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
- adjective (UK, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.
- noun A medium-brown color.
- noun An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
- noun (informal) A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
- noun (military, slang) A supply petty officer.
- noun A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
- noun An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.
- noun A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.
- noun A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.
- proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Dustin.
- proper noun (UK) a nickname for someone with the surname Miller
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Etymology
From Middle English dusty, dusti, from Old English dūstiġ, dystiġ, dȳstiġ (“dusty”), equivalent to dust + -y. Cognate with Dutch donzig (“cottony, downy, woolly”), German dunstig (“hazy, misty”).
Derived from Dustin.
Derived from dusty, from the tendency of persons engaged in the milling of flour to become covered with flour dust.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
- adjective Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white. Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); --so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
Etymology [AS. dystig. See Dust.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dusty”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details