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dusty (iou) and damfool (iou)


dusty (iou)



dusty adjective. OE.
[from DUST noun + -Y1.]
Full of, abounding with, or strewn with dust. OE.
Of the Nature of or pertaining to dust; finely powdered like dust. LME.
Of colour: appearing as though sprinkled with dust, dull. E17.
fig. Mean, worthless; uninteresting, 'dry as dust'; vague, unsatisfactory. E17.
Special collocations & phrases: dusty answer an unsatisfactory answer; a rebuff. dusty miller (a) any of several plants grown for their ornamental greyish or whitish foliage, esp. silver ragwort, Senecio cineraria, snow in summer, Cerastium tomentosum, and a N. American mugwort, Artemisia stellerana; (b) a kind of artificial fishing-fly; (c) US any of various speckled noctuid moths. not so dusty, none so dusty colloq. not so bad, fairly good.
dustily adverb L16.
dustiness noun L16.

damfool (iou)



damfool adjective & noun. ['damfu:l] colloq. Also damn-fool. L19.
[from DAMN adjective + FOOL noun1.]
(A person who is) thoroughly foolish or stupid.
dam'foolery noun E20.
dam'foolishness noun L19.