sawdusty
AmericanEtymology
Origin of sawdusty
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
They hack down palms, make sawdusty flour out of the pith.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well, perhaps not so strange either," said Mr. M'Cosh, in his sawdusty voice, with his mouth full.
From A Marriage at Sea by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)
And there were lots of books—not the sawdusty, dry kind that Miss Sandal had in her house, but jolly good books, the kind you can't put down till you've finished.
From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)
Fancy, old chump, Me doing the sawdusty reglar, and follering swells on the stump!
From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen
There art was represented by broken-nosed plaster statues of Ceres and a variety of other heathen goddesses, some supporting gas-lamps in sawdusty bars and restaurants; others gracing lawns and flower-beds.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
