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feather-dust

feather-dust verb: to clean with a feather duster.

Verb

feather-dust (third-person singular simple present feather-dusts, present participle feather-dusting, simple past and past participle feather-dusted)

  1. (transitive) To clean with a feather duster.

Forms of feather-dust

third-person singular presentfeather-dusts
present participlefeather-dusting
past participlefeather-dusted
pastfeather-dusted

Origin of feather-dust

Back-formation from feather duster.

Questions about feather-dust

What does feather-dust mean?
Feather-dust means to clean with a feather duster.
What part of speech is feather-dust?
Feather-dust is a verb.
What is the past tense of feather-dust?
The past tense of feather-dust is feather-dusted.

Words near feather-dust in the dictionary

  1. feather-bedding
  2. feather-beds
  3. feather-brain
  4. feather-brained
  5. feather-brains
  6. feather-dust
  7. feather-dusted
  8. feather-dusting
  9. feather-dusts
  10. feather-grass
  11. feather-grasses

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