dusty

Senso (Inglese)

Adj

1. Covered with dust.
2. Powdery and resembling dust.
3. Grey or greyish.
4. (figuratively) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
5. (slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
6. (British, slang) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.

Noun

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-plural, possibly) A clump of dust; a dust bunny.

Concetti

polveroso

impolverato

polverosa

vecchio

🧓

stantio

polverose

sinonimi

covered with dust

powdery

dirty

soiled

moth-eaten

cold

🥶

stale

dust-covered

filthy

fog

🌫️

fuzzy

gravelly

grey

haze

hazy

inconclusive

be covered with dust

muddy

nasty

powdered

dried up

pulverulent

disgraceful

spotty

talc-like

uninteresting

unsatisfactory

dirt

raise dust

dry

dust

dusted

Traduzioni

staubig

stoffig

polvoriento

poussiéreux

tozlu

poeirento

empoeirado

revolcado

empolvado

toz

empoeirada

مترب

polvoroso

σκονισμένος

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈdʌsti/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: dusty

Ereditato da inglese antico: dūstiġ

Affine olandese: donzig

Affine tedesco: dunstig

In summary

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”).