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

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• Rhymes: -ʌsti

Adjective

dusty (comparative dustier, superlative dustiest)

1. Covered with dust.
2. powdery and resembling dust
3. gray/grey in parts

Translations

covered with dust

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塵封 (cmn), 尘封 (cmn) (chénfēng)

• Czech: zaprášený (cs)
• Dutch: stoffig (nl)
• Esperanto: polva (eo)
• French: poussiéreux (fr)
• German: staubig (de)
• Hungarian: poros (hu)
• Ido: polvoza (io)

• Italian: polveroso (it), impolverato (it)
• Japanese: ほこりっぽい (ja) (hokorippoi)
• Malay: berhabuk (ms)
• Russian: пыльный (ru) (pýlʹnyj) 
• Scottish Gaelic: dustach (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: прашњав (sh), prašnjav (sh)
• Spanish: polvoriento (es)
• Turkish: tozlu (tr)

powdery and resembling dust

• Dutch: stoffig (nl)
• German: staubig (de)
• Hungarian: porszerű (hu)
• Italian: polveroso (it), impolverato (it)

• Russian: размельчённый (ru) (razmelʹčónnyj) , порошкообразный (ru) (poroškoobráznyj) 
• Scottish Gaelic: dustach (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: прашкаст (sh), praškast (sh)

gray/grey in parts

• Hungarian: szürke (hu)
• Russian: сероватый (ru) (serovátyj) , блёклый (ru) (bljóklyj) 

• Scottish Gaelic: dustach (gd)

Derived terms

• dusty miller

Anagrams

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