Crossword clues for dusty
dusty
- Powdered from neglect
- Obviously little-used
- Not recently cleaned
- Not brushed off recently
- Needing cleaning, as tabletops
- Needing cleaning, as a tabletop
- Like toys in the attic
- Like the trail on a cattle drive
- Like some top-shelf products?
- Like neglected tabletops
- Like neglected antiques
- Like most attics
- Like items in attics, often
- Like a shelf that hasn't been cleaned in a while
- Like a neglected attic
- In need of a spring clean
- Failing the white-glove test, say
- Covered with motes
- Covered in powder
- Covered in fine dirt
- Clearly little-used
- "The Look of Love" singer Springfield
- Toys, donuts, being flogged? That’s fairly good
- Name for a cowpoke
- Like many attics
- Cowpoke's moniker
- Cowhand's handle
- Common nickname for a cowpoke
- Common name for a cowboy
- Rhodes of Polo Grounds fame
- Uncleaned
- Like rural roads
- Like toads during a drought
- Like many an attic
- Like the Okies' homeland
- In need of cleaning
- Dirty work that has to be done to protect Society
- In need of airing out
- Failing the white-glove test
- Coated in fine dirt
- Not brushed off
- Like neglected furniture
- Fresh from the trail
- Singer Springfield
- Showing disuse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dusty \dust"y\ (d[u^]st"[y^]), a. [Compar. Dustier (d[u^]st"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Dustiest (d[u^]st"[i^]*[e^]st).] [AS. dystig. See Dust.]
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Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to dust.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
--Shak. -
Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.
Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant ( Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from dust + -y (2). Related: Dustiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Covered with dust. 2 powdery and resembling dust 3 gray/grey in parts
WordNet
adj. covered with a layer of dusty; "a dusty pile of books" [syn: dust-covered]
Wikipedia
Dusty is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's desert trooper and debuted in 1985.
Dusty may refer to: Ezana Kalekristos's mother, aka the dustiest person alive.
Dusty is the second album of singer Dusty Springfield to be released in the USA. It was issued on the Philips Records label in 1964 and includes Springfield's hit singles "All Cried Out", "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" and the double A-side "Guess Who?"/"Live It Up".
Dusty is a 1983 Australian film about the friendship between a drover (Bill Kerr) and his part-dingo dog, Dusty.
It was shot on location in northern Victoria.
Dusty is a given name which may refer to:
Note: It is possible that "Dusty" is actually a nickname of some of these people.
- Dusty Bonner (born 1979), American former football quarterback
- Dusty Dvoracek (born 1983), American football player
- Dusty Hughes (playwright) (born 1947), English playwright and director
- Dusty Jonas (born 1986), American high jumper
- Dusty Noble (born 1984), South African former rugby union footballer
- Dusty Rychart (born 1978), Australian-American basketball player
Dusty is a nickname, sometimes of Dustin (given name), which may refer to:
- Dusty Anderson (born 1918), American retired actress
- Dusty Baker (born 1949), American former Major League Baseball player and manager
- Dusty Boggess (1904-1968), American Major League Baseball umpire
- Dusty Cooke (1907-1987), American Major League Baseball player
- Robert Edson Dornin (1912-1982), United States Navy officer and submarine commander
- Dusty Dvorak (born 1958), American former volleyball player
- Dusty Fletcher (1897-1954), African-American vaudeville performer
- Kyle Foggo (born 1954), US former CIA executive convicted of fraud
- Dusty Hare (born 1952), England rugby union footballer
- Dusty Harrison (born 1994), American boxer
- Dusty Hill (born 1949), bassist and co-vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top
- Dusty Hudock (born 1972), American retired soccer player
- Dusty Hughes (baseball) (born 1982), American former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Dusty Miller (disambiguation)
- Dusty Redmon (born 1983), American guitarist
- Bob Rhoads (1879-1967), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- J. L. "Dusty" Rhoades (1899-1978), a founder and president of the American Quarter Horse Association
- Dusty Rhodes (disambiguation)
- Dusty Watson, American drummer
- Dusty Zeigler (born 1973), American former National Football League player
Usage examples of "dusty".
Looking at it rising across the valley, the straight high walls and towers adazzle in the blinding light, it seemed less a city than an enormous jewel: a monstrous ornament carved of whitest ivory and nestled against the black surrounding mountains, or a colossal milk-coloured moonstone set upon the dusty green of the valley to shimmer gently in the heat haze of a blistering summer day.
One July as he was walking in a suburban street which ended in some dusty fields, Agaric heard groans coming from a moss-grown well that had been abandoned by the gardeners.
A dusty candle burned in a dusty sconce and by its light Alec saw a broadsword hanging on the wall above the bed, its scarred scabbard blackened with age.
Twitching his dusty cloak back, he showed Alec the wooden peg strapped to the stump of his left leg.
Another door appeared and Alec felt air moving against his face as they stepped into a cold, dusty room.
At a nod from the baron, Arga went to the window and dragged apart the thick curtains, letting in beams of dusty daylight.
There was an Armiger, the rust red of his helm and the black of his cloak seeming somehow dusty, even at that distance.
The plane landed on a dusty, unmarked landing field in the desert, Atar barely visible on the dawn horizon.
The atelier proved to be a thoroughly charming, if dusty, room with dormer windows cut into either side of a high peaked ceiling.
Behind the inner log palisade rose a squat stone broch, its slits of windows brooding like eyes over the dusty ward.
Corporal List sat on the buckboard, his switch snapping the dusty, sweat-runnelled backs of the pair of oxen labouring at their yokes.
If you shut your eyes, you could believe you were back in the jungle on the outskirts of some little jerkwater town, smooth dusty under the trees on the leeward side of a grade that passed the watertank and cut off the wind, sitting around the small fire with a belly full of a good mulligan that you had been assigned the bumming of the carrots for, or maybe the onions, or the spuds.
She explained what her errand had been, and added that she preferred the bypath because she was able to avoid the dusty Eastthorpe lane.
Here he was, a chromoplastician in a world ignorant of chromoplasts, an incognito prince amongst sharp-toothed paupers, an uneasy rider in a coach that was now, at last, coming to a stop in a dusty street under a lowering sky.
In this part of it, long rows of dolls sat on their frilly bottoms, with chubbily outstretched arms, between walls of dusty turquoise.