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crust·y

(krŭs′tē)

adj. crust·i·er, crust·i·est

1. Having, resembling, or being a crust: a crusty piece of bread.

2. Outspoken and surly. Used especially of older people.

crust′i·ly adv.

crust′i·ness n.

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crusty

(ˈkrʌstɪ)

adj, crustier or crustiest

1. having or characterized by a crust, esp having a thick crust

2. having a rude or harsh character or exterior; surly; curt: a crusty remark.

n, pl crusties

(Sociology) slang a dirty type of punk or hippy whose lifestyle involves travelling and squatting

ˈcrustily adv

ˈcrustiness n

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crust•y

(ˈkrʌs ti)

adj. crust•i•er, crust•i•est.

1. having a crisp or thick crust: crusty bread.

2. of the nature of or resembling a crust.

3. testy or surly.

[1350–1400]

crust′i•ly, adv.

crust′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	crusty - having a hardened crust as a covering crusted, crustlike, encrusted covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
	2.	crusty - brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

crusty

adjective

1. crispy, well-baked, crisp, well-done, brittle, friable, hard, short crusty french loaves

2. irritable, short, cross, prickly, touchy, curt, surly, gruff, brusque, cantankerous, tetchy, ratty (Brit. & N.Z. informal), testy, chippy (informal), short-tempered, peevish, crabby, choleric, splenetic, ill-humoured, captious, snappish or snappy a crusty old colonel with a gruff manner

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crusty

adjective

Rudely unceremonious:

abrupt, blunt, brief, brusque, curt, gruff, short, short-spoken.

Translations

فَظ، سَريع الإنفعالمُحَمَّص، ذو قِشْرَةِ

nerudnýpopudlivýs kůrou

knottensprødvranten

krustig reizbar

ξεροψημένος

bourru

héjasropogós

meî skorpuskapstirîur

crostoso

nors

skorpet

s kôrkou

aksikabukluters

执拗的易发脾气的有硬皮的

crusty

[ˈkrʌstɪ] ADJ (crustier (compar) (crustiest (superl)))

1. [bread] → crujiente; [loaf] → de corteza dura

2. [person] → arisco, malhumorado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crusty

[ˈkrʌsti] adj

[bread] → croustillant(e)

(= bad-tempered) [person] → revêche, bourru(e); [remark] → sec(sèche)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crusty

adj (+er) → knusprig; (fig: = irritable) → barsch

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

crusty

[ˈkrʌstɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (bread) → croccante (fam) (person) → brontolone/a; (remark) → brusco/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

crust

(krast) noun

1. (a piece of) the hard outside coating of bread. The child would not eat the crusts.

2. (American) pastry. She makes excellent pie crust.

3. a hard surface especially the outer layer of the earth.

ˈcrusty adjective

1. having a crust. crusty bread.

2. surly or irritable.

ˈcrustily adverb

ˈcrustiness noun

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But there was a cloth spread upon the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one, with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle of wine beside the plate.

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And Michael quickly ceased from being crusty and took pleasure in their quiet companionship.

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Astor, "appears to engross most of their attention." We can conceive what must have been the crusty impatience of the worthy navigator, when, on any trifling occurrence in the course of the voyage, quite commonplace in his eyes, he saw these young landsmen running to record it in their journals; and what indignant glances he must have cast to right and left, as he worried about the deck, giving out his orders for the management of the ship, surrounded by singing, smoking, gossiping, scribbling groups, all, as he thought, intent upon the amusement of the passing hour, instead of the great purposes and interests of the voyage.

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Everything went right this time, and it came out a nice, round, crusty loaf, as you see.

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At last he came upon an elderly, crusty Jew, who sold second-hand articles, and from whom he purchased a dress of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otter-skin pelisse, for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy-five pounds.

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"Ah, but you are a crusty fellow, friend!" said the count.

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Then, too, there was a meaty fisherman's stew, delicious with garlic, and crusty Italian bread without butter, and all washed down with pint mugs of thick and heady claret.

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The landlord was rich, and therefore could afford to be crusty and disobliging; he did not at all like being turned out of his warm bed to open his house for us.

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"Well, the fact is, I understand he's rather a crusty, funny old fellow.

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'Hows'ever as it's the poor horse that's damaged and not you, one of you is welcome to the light at all events--but it's not the crusty one.'

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Aunt Chloe set a chair for her in a manner decidedly gruff and crusty. She did not seem to notice either the action or the manner.

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John, she has no choice of helpers: she is forced to put up with such crusty people as you."