Crusty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crusty \Crust"y\ (-[y^]), a.
     1. Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering;
        as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
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     2. [Possibly a corruption of cursty. Cf. {Curst},


        {Curstness}.] Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough
        manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.
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              Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?
                                                    --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crusty
       adj 1: having a hardened crust as a covering [syn: {crusted}, {encrusted},
               {crustlike}]
       2: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a
          crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff
          manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: {curmudgeonly}, {gruff}, {ill-humored},
           {ill-humoured}]
       [also: {crustiest}, {crustier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "crusty":
     abrupt, aggressive, backed, barnyard, bearish, beastly, biggety,
     bitchy, bluff, blunt, brash, brief, brusque, calcified, callous,
     calloused, cankered, cantankerous, case-hardened, cavalier, cheeky,
     choleric, churlish, chutzpadik, coarse, cocky, contemptuous,
     crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusted, crystallized, curt,
     cussed, derisive, dirty, disagreeable, disrespectful, dour,
     excitable, facy, feisty, filthy, flip, flippant, fossilized, foul,
     fractious, fresh, gally, granulated, gratuitous, gross, gruff,
     hardened, harsh, hornified, huffish, huffy, impertinent, impudent,
     incrusted, indurate, indurated, irascible, irritable, lapidified,
     malapert, mean, nervy, ornery, ossified, pert, perverse, petrified,
     rank, raunchy, reinforced, rigidified, rough, rude, sassy,
     saturnine, saucy, sclerotic, set, severe, sharp, short, smart,
     smart-alecky, smart-ass, snappish, snippety, snippy, solidified,
     spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, steeled, stiffened, strengthened,
     surly, testy, toughened, truculent, ugly, uncalled-for, vitrified,
     waspish, wise-ass