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[ adjective ] covered with a layer of dusty
Synonyms Examples "a dusty pile of books" Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)Crossing the 4000 - foot width of the Mekong at Champassak , on a raft with an outboard_motor , we took_off our dusty shirts and enjoyed a veritable ocean breeze . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)I have no picture in my mind of the garden as_a_whole - that I could not see - but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory : wind-blown , frost-bitten , white chrysanthemums beneath a window , with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ripe pears lying in long grass , to be turned_over by a dusty slippered foot , cautiously , lest bees still worked in the ragged , brown edged holes ; hot colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch , where we passed on_our_way to the pump with the half gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it . (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and - Well , at_least I would n't have shouted back a taunt . `` Hell , yes '' , I roared back between dusty lips . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Man's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 832
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 2082
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