Definitions
Etymologies
- dust + up (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The key thing in this so called dustup is Obama is not on records personally stating his position.”
McCain And Obama Battle It Out Over Supreme Court Handgun Decision
“This means that somehow the dustup is the Clinton campaign's fault?”
Key Obama Surrogate Says She Believes Hillary Camp Had Nothing To Do With Obama Turban Pic
“Anyone recall the dustup that occured when Ted Rall did the comic comparing the boy king to a mentally retarded person?”
“The dustup could be a publicity coup for Zynga, which is on the verge of making its stock market debut.”
“The dustup is the latest scandal in global warming science, coming after the disclosure of attempts to shade climate-science research findings at the U. K.'s East Anglia U.iversity and the failed talks in Copenhagen by environmental policymakers last month.”
“It's incredible to me that you see Obama gaining leverage on this "dustup".”
Hillary Hits Obama: "Pennsylvanians Don't Need A President Who Looks Down On Them"
“LEMON: Jessica, hey, I think "dustup" is putting it mild there.”
“Look, the whole Valenti-Althouse "dustup" comes down to one thing: Valenti made a casual mistake by proudly posing with Clinton, then compounded it by revealing her cluelessness of the most basic feminist issues relating to Clinton.”
“Denizens of the Seattle blogosphere and loyal readers of this site will recall the dustup which ensued when Capitol Hill’s Victrola Coffee & Art decided to turn off its free 802.11 wireless service on weekends.”
Free Coffeehouse Wireless Redux: University Zoka | Seattle Metblogs
“New York Times reports that the "" dustup "over President-elect Barack Obama's selection of Leon Panetta" to lead the CIA appeared to cool Wednesday "after Senator Dianne Feinstein, incoming chairwoman of the Select Committee on Intelligence," dropped her criticism, "saying,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dustup’.
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Drabble-writing prompt words
Words that are good prompts for writing drabbles (fanfic)
blasphemy, miscreant, je taime, phantasmagoria, lottery, dustup, whizz-bang, maelstrom, tryst, secret alliance, skinny dipping, tingle and 8 more...
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litigious semantics
ad unguem, abeyance, choleric, contentious, curmudgeonly, churlish, dictatorial, vindictive, dogmatic, truculent, mutinous, refractory and 254 more...
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litany of lexical likes
words I find interesting or that stuck in my head or that I want to revisit at some point
loblolly, animadvert, misoneism, outrance, chokedamp, appropinquate, noesis, cataphor, flabbergastment, godforsaken, mendacity, sussurus and 113 more...
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Time Out New York
words looked up while copyediting for this magazine
tonsorial, nudnick, doyenne, lothario, ebon, compere, cloaca, carom, evince, jocosity, profligacy, favela and 110 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dustup.
seanahan I think this should be a compound, or at least hyphenated. Jul 8, 2009
elohiwarrior The importance of unfuck has been lost after I copped an elephant in more ways than one this last weekend. Mission accomplished! Jul 6, 2009