lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
"moth-eaten theories about race"
"stale news"
Covered with dust.
"The dusty floorboards crunched under our feet as we walked through the abandoned house."
A diminutive of the male given name Dustin.
"When the old man walked into the barn, everyone knew by his dusty coat that he was just another Miller from the valley."
a nickname for someone with the surname Miller
From Middle English dusty, dusti, from Old English dūstiġ, dystiġ, dȳstiġ ("dusty"), equivalent to dust + -y. Cognate with Dutch donzig ("cottony, downy, woolly"), German dunstig ("hazy, misty").