sawdust

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.
2. (derogatory, informal, uncountable, usually)Food that is unpleasantly powdery and tasteless.

   “I have a hard time looking at green cylinder Parmesan, the scentless sawdust inside practically mocking Giorgio Cravero's Parmigiano-Reggiano […]”

verb

1. (transitive)To sprinkle with sawdust.

   “[…] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.”