dusty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Covered with a layer of dust.

   She pulled a dusty old book down from the top shelf.

2. 2
   adj

   Old-fashioned and out of date.

   His ideas felt dusty and out of touch with modern life.

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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