Dirt vs Dusty - What's the difference?
dirt | dusty |
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
Covered with dust.
powdery and resembling dust
gray/grey in parts
As a noun dirt
is animal.As a proper noun dusty is
, diminutive of dustin or dusty can be (british) a nickname for someone with the surname miller.dirt
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy