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sawdusty

sawdusty adjective: resembling, or covered in, sawdust.

Adjective

sawdusty (comparative more sawdusty, superlative most sawdusty)

  1. Resembling, or covered in, sawdust.
    • SWEE PHUAH, the contractor for the new Momofuku Noodle Bar in the East Village that David Chang expects to open next week, pointed at the speakers in what was still a sawdusty construction site a few weeks ago.2007 October 17, Oliver Schwaner-Albright, “On Time, on Budget: This Is New York?”, in New York Times

Forms of sawdusty

comparativemore sawdusty
superlativemost sawdusty

Origin of sawdusty

From sawdust + -y.

Questions about sawdusty

What does sawdusty mean?
Sawdusty means resembling, or covered in, sawdust.
What part of speech is sawdusty?
Sawdusty is an adjective.

Words near sawdusty in the dictionary

  1. sawdusted
  2. sawdusting
  3. sawdustish
  4. sawdustlike
  5. sawdusts
  6. sawdusty
  7. Sawdy
  8. Sawdys
  9. sawe
  10. sawed
  11. sawed gourds

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