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sawdusty

sawdusty

1 6.5
Smelling or feeling like small dry bits of wood
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɔːdʌsti/
: polvoriento
  • The cool, sawdusty dankness of the room makes her want to open the only window, stuck shut for twenty years and tinted with sticky yellow dirt.

Examples

  • A big, sawdusty, scrap wood cluttered pile of it.

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  • It's like little sawdusty looking material, which means something is boring into these sunflower stems.

  • And I'm getting some of that like sawdusty thrift store thing from the from the news noodles.

  • The bread had a sawdusty texture after being overcooked in the oven.

  • I noticed a sawdusty smell in the air as carpenters worked on the new cabinets.

  • The dusty attic was filled with sawdusty remnants of past woodwork projects.

Synonyms

dusty
vssawdusty
104 1.0

Having a layer of dust that makes it look dirty

focuses on smell or texture like wood shavings rather than being merely covered
dustlike
vssawdusty
1 3.4

Very small and powdery like dust

focuses on internal smell or texture like wood shavings not surface covering

How Dusty

filthy
115 1.5
sawdusty
1 6.5
dusty
104 1.0
clean
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

sawdusty positive

Morphology

sawdusty = sawdust (transparent) = saw + dust + y

Clearly formed from the noun 'sawdust' with the adjectival suffix '-y' meaning 'having the quality of'.

Etymology

Sawdusty is simply sawdust + -y, where sawdust is 'dust made when wood is cut' and -y means 'full of' or 'having the quality of', just like in dusty. So something sawdusty smells, feels, or looks like sawdust.