cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten
(adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; “moth-eaten theories about race”; “stale news”
dusty, dust-covered
(adjective) covered with a layer of dust; “a dusty pile of books”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dusty (comparative dustier, superlative dustiest)
Covered with dust.
Powdery and resembling dust.
Grey in parts.
(African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse)
• (covered with dust): dust-ridden
• Dutys, study
Derived from Dustin.
Dusty
A diminutive of the male given name Dustin.
Derived from dusty, from the tendency of persons engaged in the milling of flour to become covered with flour dust.
Dusty
(British) a nickname for someone with the surname Miller
• Dutys, study
Source: Wiktionary
Dust"y, a. [Compar. Dustier; superl. Dustiest.] Etym: [AS. dystig. See Dust.]
1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak.
2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white. Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
