dusty

Meanings

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 Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.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

1. A medium-brown color.
2. An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
3. A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
4. 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. A duststorm.
11. A clump of dust; a dust bunny.

1. A diminutive of the male given name Dustin.

1. a nickname for someone with the surname Miller

Etymology

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”).