dusty

dusty

See also: Dusty

English

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌsti/

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• Rhymes: -ʌsti
• Homophone: dustee

Adjective

dusty (comparative dustier, superlative dustiest)

A dusty road in Kenya (1)

1. Covered with dust.

   a dusty carpet

2. Powdery and resembling dust.
3. Grey in parts.
4. (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
   • 2018, Mark A. Kunkel, Allegories for Psychotherapy, Teaching, and Supervision, page 208:

     The very smart practitioners of my acquaintance do not rest their right hand on old dusty knowledge, but bend and move along a ground of being in which they are perpetually on the lookout for what is trusty and true, new and old.

5. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse)

Synonyms

• (covered with dust): dust-ridden

Derived terms

• dusty miller
• dusty plasma
• dusty rose
• trusty dusty
• trusty-dusty

 

Translations

covered with dust

Armenian: փոշոտ (hy) (pʿošot) Azerbaijani: tozlu Belarusian: пы́льны (pýlʹny), запы́лены (zapýljeny), упы́лены (upýljeny) Bulgarian: прашен (bg) (prašen) Cherokee: ᎪᏍᏚᎭᎢ (gosduhai) Chinese: Mandarin: 塵封／尘封 (zh) (chénfēng) Czech: zaprášený (cs) Danish: støvet Dutch: stoffig (nl) Esperanto: polva Finnish: pölyinen (fi), tomuinen (fi) French: poussiéreux (fr) German: staubig (de) Hungarian: poros (hu) Icelandic: rykfallinn Ido: polvoza (io) Indonesian: berdebu (id) Italian: polveroso (it), impolverato (it) Japanese: ほこりっぽい (ja) (hokorippoi) Khmer: ប្រឡូស (km) (prɑlooh) Malay: berhabuk Norwegian: støvet Polish: zakurzony (pl) Portuguese: poeirento (pt), empoeirado (pt) Russian: пы́льный (ru) (pýlʹnyj), запылённый (ru) (zapyljónnyj), запорошённый (zaporošónnyj) Scottish Gaelic: dustach Serbo-Croatian: прашњав, prašnjav (sh) Spanish: polvoriento (es) Sundanese: belewuk Tausug: mabagunbun Tocharian B: tweyetstse Turkish: tozlu (tr) Tuvan: доозуннуг (doozunnug), довурактыг (dovuraktıg) Ukrainian: порошни́й (porošnýj), пи́льний (pýlʹnyj), курни́й (kurnýj), ку́рявий (kúrjavyj), запоро́шений (zaporóšenyj) Vietnamese: bụi bặm (vi) Yakut: быыллаах (bııllaax), буордаах (buordaax)

powdery and resembling dust

Dutch: stoffig (nl) Finnish: pölyinen (fi), tomuinen (fi) German: staubig (de) Hungarian: porszerű (hu) Italian: polveroso (it), impolverato (it) Maori: puaheri Polish: pylisty Portuguese: poeirento (pt) Russian: размельчённый (ru) (razmelʹčónnyj), порошкообра́зный (ru) (poroškoobráznyj) Scottish Gaelic: dustach Serbo-Croatian: прашкаст, praškast

grey in parts

Bulgarian: пепеляв (bg) (pepeljav) Hungarian: szürke (hu) Polish: zgaszony, złamany (pl) Russian: серова́тый (ru) (serovátyj), блёклый (ru) (bljóklyj) Scottish Gaelic: dustach

Anagrams

• Dutys, Duyst, study

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• dusti

Etymology

From Old English dūstiġ; equivalent to dust +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdustiː/, /ˈduːstiː/

Adjective

dusty

1. dusty, dust-covered
2. like dust, powdery

Related terms

• dust

Descendants

• English: dusty
• Scots: dusty, disty

References

• “dū̆stī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.