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Dusting vs Dustling - What's the difference?

dusting | dustling |

As nouns the difference between dusting and dustling

is that dusting is a light snowfall while dustling is a small grain or particle; mote; speck.

As a verb dusting

is .

dusting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light snowfall.
  • A light covering of something.
    • Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.
  • The act of removing dust from, as a household chore.
    • Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting .
  • * (Francis Hopkinson Smith), Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero
    • Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.
  • A .

    • Related terms

    * crop-dusting

    dustling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small grain or particle; mote; speck.
  • *2012 , Jasper Reid, The Metaphysics of Henry More :
    • Now Gods Almightiness is within the least punctum physicum, or dustling of body, ('twas made and is kept in being by Almightiness). But Gods Almightiness being God himself, himself is there altogether.
  • One formed from the dust; human being.
  • *2010 , W. David O. Taylor, For the Beauty of the Church :
    • Without culture, without a garden, how could this human dustling survive in the wildness of even a very good created world?