US /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/
noun verb Freq #21073

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    Food that is unpleasantly powdery and tasteless.

    2020, Joe Berkowitz, American Cheese I have a hard time looking at green cylinder Parmesan, the scentless sawdust inside practically mocking Giorgio Cravero's Parmigiano-Reggiano […].

  2. 2
    verb

    To sprinkle with sawdust.

    […] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.

  3. 3
    noun

    fine particles of wood made by sawing wood

  4. 4
    noun

    The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.

Thesaurus

Word family
Forms sawdusty
Derived forms sawdustishsawdustlikesawdustyspit-and-sawdust

Etymology

From saw + dust.

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