Ashes - Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust.
Cinders - The school hall was burnt to cinders last night.
Dirt - ‘Charlie, I can see dirt under those nails. Get them scrubbed if you want any supper.’
Dust Bunnies - ‘Supper? The only thing to eat around here is dust bunnies.’
Earth - Get me off this earth.
Filth - ‘Come over here right now, Charlie. I’m going to clean out that filt’y mout’ o’ yers.’
Flakes - ‘If you keep scratching yer scalp like that of course its going to come off in flakes.’
Fragments - When Father Pete stepped on that landmine he was blown to fragments.
Gilings - I don’t have the gilingsest idea what that means.
Grime - This orphanage is pretty grimy.
Grit - Grit your teeth, we’re almost old enough to run away.
Ground - ‘Day by day Charlie, you are digging my soul a hole in the ground.’
Lint - There’s nothing in my pocket but dust and lint.
Loess - You win some, you loess some.
Powder - ‘As the Lord is my witness, Charlie Maku, if you don’t fold yer sheets I will crush you into powder.’
Refuse - Refuse to Loess
Sand - Is what you get on holiday. Dust is the same thing but instead you see it every day and you’re starving and you live with psychotic nuns.
Smut - When being sinful my preferred approach is via smut.
Soil - I have never seen such a thing.
Soot - If I lived in Victorian times I would be covered in soot but instead I’m covered in fucking dust.
(taken from The Incredible Adventures of Daniel Maku - a novel)