Meaning

11 senses
  1. A medium-brown color.

  2. An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.

  3. (informal)A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).

  4. (slang)A supply petty officer.

  5. A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.

  6. An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.

  7. A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.

  8. A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.

  9. A dustman.

  10. (rare)A duststorm.

  11. (in the plural, possibly)A clump of dust; a dust bunny.

Examples

53 sentences
  1. The furniture was dusty.

    Меблі були пильні.

    ruМебель была пыльной.

    deDie Möbel waren staubig.

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  2. Tom said the room was dusty.

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  3. The garage is dusty.

    ruВ гараже пыльно.

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  4. It's very dusty in here.

    ruТут очень пыльно.

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  5. It's so dusty.

    ruОн такой пыльный.

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Origin

From Middle English dusty, dusti, from Old English dūstiġ, dystiġ, dȳstiġ (“dusty”), equiv

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”).

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Forms

plural: dusties
Singulardusty
Pluraldusties

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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