Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having, resembling, or being a crust.
- adj. Rough or surly in manner. See Synonyms at gruff.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like crust; of the nature of crust; hard: as, a crusty surface or substance.
- Peevish; snappish; surly; harshly curt in manner or speech.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread.
- adj. figuratively, of a person or behavior Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; peevish, surly, harsh.
- n. chiefly UK A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
- n. slang Dried eye mucus.
- n. chiefly UK A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering.
- adj. Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. brusque and surly and forbidding
- adj. having a hardened crust as a covering
Etymologies
- From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Selig, crusty from the criticism that surrounds his decision, stuck with his position that there were no other choices.”
“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.”
“Admit it, it’s a pretty name—at least when it’s not modified by the word crusty.”
“In Persian restaurants, they call the crusty bits "ta-dig" rather than kazmag.”
“It's described as crusty and stiff and bleached out.”
“That Thoreau gave the impression of being what country folk call a crusty person -- curt and forbidding in manner -- seems pretty well established.”
“An avuncular, cane-carrying figure who suffered from chronic asthma and a muscle disorder, Eagleburger was a heavy smoker known as crusty, charming and wisecracking.”
“If you've been wooed by a cyberstalker, this profile will bring you back to reality: lives in a 1-room apartment which hasn't been cleaned for months - if ever has stacks of pornographic magazines in his bedroom area has poor personal hygiene has poor table manners has poor social etiquette hasn't changed the sheets on his bed for months, which are now best described as crusty has a bathroom, the state of which doesn't bear thinking about lives on pizza and beer / coke, the remnants of which litter his apartment may have an unusual pet (e.g. ferret) which has free run of the apartment is either significantly over - or under-weight has a small moustache or other facial hair has not held down any job for more than a couple of years, probably less has no friends has no life outside the Internet”
“Thoreau was seen as this kind of crusty Yankee, and then he was seen as this civil disobedience hero and this environmental prophet, all of which are true.”
“Sure, the app store is picky and Steve Jobs can be kind of crusty, but how else would college students ever spend time with their dorm-mates without those dozens of iPhoto filters?”
The Huffington Post: Destroyed Apple Products on Fubiz (PHOTOS)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crusty’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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bepetersen's list
Words that I think should be banned from the English language
spittle, supper, crusty, moist, engorged, crotch, sinew, salve, suckle, mauve, damp, squat and 34 more...
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Words ending with ty
ability, dexterity, affinity, abnormality, identity, deity, poverty, animosity, duty, city, paty, majority and 3 more...
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Words We Dislike!
A list created for TRM, because there are certain words that we just kind of hate.
lover, fetus, smegma, saggy, coulomb, placenta, consumate, moist, sticky, bedroom suit, jiggles, blubber and 52 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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Moods
apathy, cuntificate, quixotic, noxious, fetid, malodorous, trepidation, expectancy, contempt, disgust, terror, fear and 149 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crusty.
yarb 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 Aug 2, 2008