English Dictionary

dustie

noun

(informal) A miller. / (military, slang) A supply petty officer. / A dustman. / Someone who scavenges from dustbins. / A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie. / A duststorm.

The dustie operated the mill with great skill.

意味（1）

(informal) A miller.

I do not like to see too much strife between dusties on the short and long system question, as it is liable to cause hard feelings.

意味（2）

(military, slang) A supply petty officer.

The mess was so overcrowded that hammock-slinging space became the perks of the badgemen the “ jack-dusties” invariably slept in their store-rooms and offices.

意味（3）

A dustman.

One Council put that principle into practice some five years ago when it changed from a refuse collection system employing its own 'dusties' to one based upon tenders from private contractors.

意味（4）

Someone who scavenges from dustbins.

By the 1960s , the 'dusties' had become a Wellington institution as they scaled flights of steps in search of backdoor rubbish bins, a canvas sack over their shoulder. The early start and finish made a job 'on the carts' popular with university ...

意味（5）

A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.

In Los Angeles, listeners can tune in to KACE, the dusties station that plays music from the '50s, '60s and '70s;

意味（6）

A duststorm.

Swirling winds in a dustie can hit fifty miles an hour, or more, rising as fast as two-thousand feet per minute.

意味（7）

A clump of dust; a dust bunny.

Sparse iron gray hair, stuck on his egg-shaped head like dusties from the vacuum bag, cold pewter eyes in little round metal-rimmed glasses, a sharp, hard nose, a mouth like a slot.

意味（8）

A medium-brown color.

The orange shades ranged from brilliant to soft; pinks from delicate little-girl hues to strong dusties; yellows were soft buttermilks to ochre; reds ran from scarlets to bloods;

意味（9）

A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.

There are scarcely any Indo-Europeans of pure blood in Peru, for with the exception of pure Indians in the interior, the population consists of mestizos, Zambos, mulattoes, terceroones, terceroones, quadroons, cholos, musties, fusties, and dusties; crosses between Spaniards and negroes, Spaniards and yellows; crosses between these people and the cholos, musties, and dusties; crosses between mongrels of one kind and mongrels of the other kinds.

意味（10）

A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.

And pretty much the same time, you started to hear about dusties down in states like California and Arizona: farmers who'd had to leave their farms because of drought, people in towns with no more water.

意味（11）

A small zinc ball used for mixing gun powder.

They also spent much time in search of dusties. These small zinc balls used for mixing powder were scattered along the east bank of the Brandywine opposite an old mill that had blown up years before.

意味（12）

An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture--Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations