dusty
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.Examples: "The very smart practitioners of my acquaintance do not rest their right hand on old dusty knowledge, but bend and move along a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."figuratively
2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).slang
3. (British, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.Examples: "...the toilet-glass on the table...had probably reflected few such faces as that of the lady calling herself Mrs. Lloyd, who looked attentively into it when she found herself alone and decided that she was not so very dusty, considering"; "One morning, I said to a patient: "How are you today, Mrs. White?" And she replied "Not so dusty - quite well brushed.""; ""Never mind," she ventured, "but thanks for the compliment. You're not so dusty yourself!""Britishslang
noun (English)
1. (informal) A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).Examples: "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."; "I've been a dusty in sixteen mills […] I'd like to hear from other dusties on this subject of a long and a short system milling and how they clean up well. Yours for the fraternity, A Bro. Miller, -Heimer."informal
2. (military, slang) A supply petty officer.Examples: "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."; "From time to time I'd get up to the dusties' mess for this or that reason, and became known to the writers and dusties up there."slang
3. (rare) A duststorm.Examples: "[…] dust storms, does it? Well, nothing like what it used to have: One spring the dusties blew so thick We staked five claims above Clay Crick Fifty foot high in the fallow air. Blows lots worse on the prairie."rare
4. (possibly only in the plural) A clump of dust; a dust bunny.Examples: "Sparse iron gray hair, stuck on his egg-shaped head like dusties from the vacuum bag, cold pewter eyes in little round metal-rimmed glasses, a sharp, hard nose, a mouth like a slot."; "His room was airy with a slight breeze gently blowing in from the top portion of the two-part window which was that had been left ajar for the purpose of refreshing and clearing the dusties."; "Are the 'dusties' settled in your house? Electrolux will clean them out."in-pluralpossibly
name (English)
1. (British) a nickname for someone with the surname MillerBritish
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