DRY-AS-DUST


Meaning of DRY-AS-DUST in English

/druy"euhz dust"/ , adj.

dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.

Also, dryasdust .

[ 1870-75; after Dr. Dryasdust, a fictitious pedant satirized in the prefaces of Sir Walter Scott's novels ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .