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Definition of Crusty
1. Adjective. Having a hardened crust as a covering.
2. Adjective. Brusque and surly and forbidding. "A gruff reply"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Crust, Curmudgeon, Gruffness
Definition of Crusty
1. a. Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
Definition of Crusty
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread. ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; peevish, surly, harsh. ¹
3. Noun. (chiefly British) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness. ¹
4. Noun. (slang) Dried eye mucus. ¹
5. Noun. (mostly UK) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crusty
1. surly [adj CRUSTIER, CRUSTIEST] : CRUSTILY [adv] - See also: surly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crusty
Literary usage of Crusty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"It was a skinny little thumbtip, growing out of the raggedy, crusty stump.
He could see the whorl of a fingerprint there, and narrow, nearly invisible ..."
2. A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces: Which are Acted at the by Inchbald (1809)
"Bruin. A poor, paltry, mean-spirited—Damn it, before I would submit to such a—
Sir Jac. Come, come, man ; don't be so crusty. Bruin. I follow, Sir Jacob. ..."
3. The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-bathing Places by Augustus Bozzi Granville (1841)
"... Cheltenham— The IMPERIAL HOTEL—Widow Joseph—Old Bachelors and crusty Port—"THE
QUEEN "—Inside and Out—EXPENSES at Hotels—A Specimen—Character of Society ..."
4. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1908)
"The skin adjacent to the bases of the nails of both fingers and toes appears
brownish red, thick- Fic. IIS. Diffuse crusty ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"The crusty loaf was the old-fashioned cottage loaf, big and crusty all over, ...
Few could resist a crust from the crusty loaf and a " hunk" from the cheese ..."
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