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 (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.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

Translations

covered with dust

• Armenian: փոշոտ (hy) (pʻošot)
• Azerbaijani: tozlu
• Belarusian: пы́льны (pýlʹny), запы́лены (zapýljeny), упы́лены (upýljeny)
• Bulgarian: прашен (bg) (prašen)
• Cherokee: ᎪᏍᏚᎭᎢ (gosduhai)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塵封／尘封 (zh) (chénfēng), 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)
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• 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 (ru) (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 (bııllaaq), буордаах (buordaaq)

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
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• 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)
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• 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.