dusty

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌsti/

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• Rhymes: -ʌsti
• Homophone: dustee

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 (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.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)

• (covered with dust): dust-ridden

• Dutys, Duyst, study

• dusti

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdustiː/, /ˈduːstiː/

dusty

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

• dust

• English: dusty
• Scots: dusty, disty

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