Crusty

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having, resembling, or being a crust.
  • adj. Rough or surly in manner. See Synonyms at gruff.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread.
  • adj. Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; peevish, surly, harsh.
  • n. A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
  • n. Dried eye mucus.
  • n. A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. brusque and surly and forbidding
  • adj. having a hardened crust as a covering
  • Equivalent
    ill-natured    covered   
    Variant
    crustier    crustiest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    snappish    peevish    surly   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dusty    busty    dusty    gusty    lusty    musty    rusty    trusty   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    surly    cantankerous    gruff    choleric    flaky    miserly    testy    sticky    fresh-baked    irascible