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

dusty (comparative dustier, superlative dustiest)

1. Covered with dust.
2. Powdery and resembling dust.
3. Grey in parts.
4. (African American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse)

• (covered with dust): dust-ridden

• dusty miller

• Dutys, 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.