sawdust
/'sɔ:dʌst/
Definition
Noun 1. Fine particles of wood produced by sawing: Sawdust consists of the tiny wood shavings, chips, and powder created as a saw cuts through wood.
Usage
Sawdust is an uncountable noun. It refers to the collective mass of wood particles. - The carpenter swept up the sawdust from the workshop floor. - The hamster's cage was lined with sawdust. - The air in the mill was thick with sawdust.
Advanced Usage
- Metaphorical Use for Insignificance or Worthlessness: Sawdust can be used metaphorically to describe something as having little substance or value.
- His argument had no real content; it was just intellectual sawdust.
- "To let the sawdust out of somebody": An idiom meaning to expose someone's pretentiousness, emptiness, or true nature.
- The tough interview questions finally let the sawdust out of the arrogant candidate.
Variants and Related Words
- Sawdusty (adjective): Resembling or covered in sawdust.
- The old workshop had a sawdusty smell.
Synonyms
- Wood shavings (though these can be larger, curly pieces).
- Wood chips (typically larger and chunkier than sawdust).
- Wood flour (a very fine, powdery form of sawdust).
Related Idioms
- "To let the sawdust out of somebody": To reveal someone's lack of substance, pretension, or true character.
- The debate was his chance to let the sawdust out of his opponent.
Noun
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fine particles of wood made by sawing wood
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