different between dusty vs dutty

English

Etymology

From Middle English dusty, dusti, from Old English d?sti?, dysti?, d?sti? (“dusty”), equivalent to dust +? -y. Cognate with Dutch donzig (“cottony, downy, woolly”), German dunstig (“hazy, misty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?sti/
• Rhymes: -?sti
• Homophone: dustee

Adjective

dusty (comparative dustier, superlative dustiest)

1. Covered with dust.
2. Powdery and resembling dust.
3. Grey in parts.
4. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse)

Synonyms

• (covered with dust): dust-ridden

Derived terms

• dusty miller

Translations

Anagrams

• Dutys, Duyst, study

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dusti

Etymology

From Old English d?sti?; equivalent to dust +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dusti?/, /?du?sti?/

Adjective

dusty

1. dusty, dust-covered
2. like dust, powdery

Related terms

• dust

Descendants

• English: dusty
• Scots: dusty, disty

References

• “d??st?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

English

Etymology

According to one source, from the Twi Akan word dutty (“ground”). Probably reinforced by the English terms dirt, dirty.

Noun

dutty

1. (Jamaican) The ground.
   • 1966, Miss Lou, Dutty Tough

     Rain a fall but dutty tough

Adjective

dutty

1. (Britain, slang) dirty
2. (Jamaican) dirty

References

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English dirty and, possibly, from Akan d?te.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?t?/
• Hyphenation: du?tty

Adjective

dutty

1. dirty, messy, soiled, unclean, nasty

Noun

dutty

1. ground, earth, land, dirt (soil)

Verb

dutty

1. dirty, make dirty, soil, spoil

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 209
• dutty – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary