dustie

n

British

1.

an old person. A term of mild contempt or even affection to their elders among Sloane Rangers and other young people of the late 1970s, becoming more wide-spread since. A less common alternative to wrinkly. In The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982) Ann Barr and Peter York attempted to define the ages of adults as follows: wrinkly (40 to 50 years old); crumbly (50 to 70 years old); and dusty (70 and above).

2.

a dustman. Not as common an abbre-viation as postie for postman, for instance.