dusting

About 0.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of dust
2. noun A light snowfall.

   The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow.

3. noun A light covering of something.

   Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.

4. noun The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.

   Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting.

5. noun A beating.
6. noun A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.

Similar words

detritus sprinkle rubble dot debris scatter disperse junk cleansing cleaning

Often followed by

of the and powder with off powders his or

Word family

dustings