dusting
/ˈdʌstɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.10 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow."
- "Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar."
- "Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting."
- "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."