Meanings
-
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
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
noun
fine particles of wood made by sawing wood
-
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.