ADJ.
full, high, hot, massive, metric, rocky
VERB + DUSTY
boots, found, grazing, house, like, tell, walking
DUSTY + NOUN
astronauts, carpet, debris, footsteps, material, peach, roads, room
PREP.
down, in, in, on
adj
Covered with dust.
a dusty carpet
On a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs.
Powdery and resembling dust.
Grey or greyish.
a dusty peach color
Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
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.
Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
noun
A medium-brown color.
The orange shades ranged from brilliant to soft; pinks from delicate little-girl hues to strong dusties; yellows were soft buttermilks to ochre; reds ran from scarlets to bloods;
I chose small floral prints for the garden area and broke them into lights, mediums, dark mediums, and darks, in other words, pastels, dusties, dark dusties, and jewel tones (refer to the Montano Color chart, page 35).
An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
A lighter, less expensive version—The White Label—was taken off the market in 2016. But dusties can still be found.
A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
I do not like to see too much strife between dusties on the short and long system question, as it is liable to cause hard feelings.
It is designed to do scalping and grading in a way to satiffy the most fastidious of dusties.
A supply petty officer.
The mess was so overcrowded that hammock-slinging space became the perks of the badgemen the “jack-dusties” invariably slept in their store-rooms and offices.
The 'Dusties' — supply Petty Officers were frantically pumping out the kit, gas masks, kit bags, blankets, army boots, toilet bags, socks, underclothes.
A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
In Los Angeles, listeners can tune in to KACE, the "dusties" station that plays music from the '50s, '60s and '70s;
WGCI 1390 - AM was previously known for playing R & B oldies known as "dusties".
name
A diminutive of the male given name Dustin.
adjective — lacking originality or spontaneity
adjective — covered with a layer of dust
A formulaic phrase for a miller, related to the dust generated in the milling process.
Hey, the dusty miller, / And his dusty coat! / He will win a shilling, / Ere he spend a groat. / Dusty was the coat, / Dusty was the colour; / Dusty was the kiss, / That I gat frae
a dusty carpet
WiktionaryOn a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs.
Wiktionarya dusty peach color
WiktionaryThe orange shades ranged from brilliant to soft; pinks from delicate little-girl hues to strong dusties; yellows were soft buttermilks to ochre; reds ran from scarlets to bloods;
WiktionaryI chose small floral prints for the garden area and broke them into lights, mediums, dark mediums, and darks, in other words, pastels, dusties, dark dusties, and jewel tones (refer to the Montano Colo
WiktionaryA lighter, less expensive version—The White Label—was taken off the market in 2016. But dusties can still be found.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, dusty is marked as figuratively, slang, informal, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.