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dust puppy noun a cluster of soft dust that accumulates on the floor US- Kristen who couldn’t bake, couldn’t clean house without leaving the corners full of dustypuppies and the wallpaper smeared where her broom had brushed down cobwebs. — Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, p. 57, 1943
- Dust puppies tended to clump where the pipes turned, and she stopped occasionally to clean them away. — Larry Niven, Footfall, p. 419, 1985
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