Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Covered with dust. · Powdery and resembling dust. · Grey or greyish. · Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
A medium-brown color. · An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time. · A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust). · A supply petty officer.
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”).
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