dustyfoot

noun

plural dustyfeet or dustyfoots

Scottish

: a wayfaring peddler compare court of piepoudre

Word History

Etymology

Middle English dustiefute, from dustie, dusty dusty + fute, fot foot; translation of Anglo-French piepowdrous

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