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crusty - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having, resembling, or being a crust.
- adjective Outspoken and surly. Used especially of older people.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like crust; of the nature of crust; hard: as, a crusty surface or substance.
- Peevish; snappish; surly; harshly curt in manner or speech.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering.
- adjective Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to or having a
crust , as, for example, in the case ofbread . - adjective figuratively, of a person or behavior
Short-tempered andgruff but, sometimes, with aharmless orbenign inner nature;peevish ,surly ,harsh . - noun chiefly UK A
tramp orhomeless young person with poorcleanliness . - noun slang
Dried eye mucus . - noun chiefly UK A member of an
urban subculture with roots inpunk andgrebo , characterized byantiestablishment attitudes and anunkempt appearance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective brusque and surly and forbidding
- adjective having a hardened crust as a covering
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.
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Examples
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Selig, crusty from the criticism that surrounds his decision, stuck with his position that there were no other choices.
Television concerns to blame for Astros unfair road trip 2008
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A fondue is a delicious way to while away a cold winter evening ... huddled around a pot of molten cheese, dipping in crusty bread and potato wedges.
Archive 2006-01-01 Nupur 2006
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Admit it, it’s a pretty name—at least when it’s not modified by the word crusty.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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Admit it, it’s a pretty name—at least when it’s not modified by the word crusty.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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Admit it, it’s a pretty name—at least when it’s not modified by the word crusty.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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Admit it, it’s a pretty name—at least when it’s not modified by the word crusty.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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Admit it, it’s a pretty name—at least when it’s not modified by the word crusty.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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In Persian restaurants, they call the crusty bits "ta-dig" rather than kazmag.
Azerbaian Pilaf with Pomegranate Meatballs Lindy 2006
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It's described as crusty and stiff and bleached out.
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That Thoreau gave the impression of being what country folk call a crusty person -- curt and forbidding in manner -- seems pretty well established.
The Last Harvest John Burroughs 1879
Related Words
synonyms (113)
Words with the same meaning
- abrupt
- aggressive
- backed
- barnyard
- bearish
- beastly
- biggety
- bitchy
- bluff
- blunt
- brash
- brief
- brusque
- calcified
- callous
- calloused
- cankered
- cantankerous
- case-hardened
- cavalier
- cheeky
- choleric
- churlish
- chutzpadik
- coarse
- cocky
- contemptuous
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- cross-grained
- crusted
- crystallized
- curt
- cussed
- derisive
- dirty
- disagreeable
- disrespectful
- dour
- excitable
- facy
- feisty
- filthy
- flip
- flippant
- fossilized
- foul
- fractious
- fresh
- gally
- granulated
- gratuitous
- gross
- gruff
- hardened
- harsh
- hornified
- huffish
- huffy
- impertinent
- impudent
- incrusted
- indurate
- indurated
- irascible
- irritable
- lapidified
- malapert
- mean
- nervy
- ornery
- ossified
- peevish
- pert
- perverse
- petrified
- rank
- raunchy
- reinforced
- rigidified
- rough
- rude
- sassy
- saturnine
- saucy
- sclerotic
- set
- severe
- sharp
- short
- smart
- smart-alecky
- smart-ass
- snappish
- snippety
- snippy
- solidified
- spiteful
- spleeny
- splenetic
- steeled
- stiffened
- strengthened
- surly
- testy
- toughened
- truculent
- ugly
- uncalled-for
- vitrified
- waspish
- wise-ass
yarb commented on the word crusty
And this isn't/some crusty superannuated old Colonel/ lamenting, saying 'Of course, it was all fields then...',/but me, as my cardio-whatsit ticks limply, observing/the clocks all knackered, whereas they used not to be.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
August 2, 2008