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Webster 1913 Edition
Crusty
Crust′y
(-y̆)
, Adj.
1.
Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering;
as, a
. crusty
coat; a crusty
surface or substanceWebster 1828 Edition
Crusty
CRUSTY
,Adj.
1.
Like crust; of the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; hard; as a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.2.
Peevish; snappish; morose; surly; a word used in familiar discourse, but not deemed elegant.Definition 2024
crusty
crusty
English
Adjective
crusty (comparative crustier, superlative crustiest)
- Pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread.
- (figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; peevish, surly, harsh.
- Of very low quality; inferior.
Translations
having a crust
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grumpy, short-tempered
Noun
crusty (plural crusties)
- (chiefly Britain) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
- (slang) Dried eye mucus.
- 1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 0-7388-0467-3, page 155:
- Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand.
- 2003, Mary O'Connell, "Saint Anne", in Living with Saints, Grove Press, ISBN 0-8021-3926-4, page 209:
- Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella?
- 2005, Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey, Contemporary Press, ISBN 0974461490, page 51:
- I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.
- 1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 0-7388-0467-3, page 155:
- (chiefly Britain) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
Synonyms
- (dried eye mucus): gound (UK dialectal), sleep, sleepy dust (informal)
See also
References
- crusty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “crusty” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- “crusty” in Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary, North American Edition (2007)
- "crusty" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
- "crusty (adj. easily annoyed)" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- "crusty (n. an unwashed person)" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- “crusty” in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)