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dustball

noun

Etymology

From dust + ball.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. compounded as dustball — “dust + ball”

Definitions

  1. A ball of dust.

  2. A ball of grain-dust formed in the intestine of a diseased horse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dustball. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA