Crusty

Definition: Crusty

Crusty

Adjective

1. Having a hardened crust as a covering.

2. Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crusty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

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

Literature

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Synonyms: Crusty

Sullenness

Adjective: sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly; (discourteous).

Crosswords: Crusty

Well, it's healed up, but it was sort of red and crusty with little itchy places (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Is this it priest, the popes new army, a few crusty bitches and a hand full of rag tags (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks)

She's got stinky crusty socks (The Death Of Suzzy Roche; performing artist: The Roches)

A Crusty Old Bachelor (1899)

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References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Crusty Rolls (reference)

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Books

• Barnacles (Musty Crusty Animals) (reference)

• Crayfish (Musty Crusty Animals) (reference)

• Hermit Crabs (Musty Crusty Animals) (reference)

• Horseshoe Crabs (Musty Crusty Animals) (reference)

• Lobsters (Musty Crusty Animals) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Crusty Demons of Dirt, Vol. 2 (reference)

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Expression using "crusty": crusty snow. Additional references.

Beginning with "crusty": crusty-free, crusty-grunger, crusty-looking, crusty-type.

Containing "crusty": rough-and-crusty-but-it'll-wash-off-by-monday-morning.

Albanian

i zemëruar (angry, biliary, crabbed, crabby, embittered, indignant, mad, rampant, Wroth), i mbuluar me lëvozhgë (crusted), i inatosur (angry, annoyed, enraged, mad, rambunctious, rampageous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏قشري (scaly), ‏سريع الغضب (combustible, hasty, inflammable, irascible, irate, irritable, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, tempestuous, testy, tetchy, ticklish, touchy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свадлив (cantankerous, contentious, crabbed, cursed, quarrelsome, rowdy, shrewish, termagant, ugly, vixenish), твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), с кора, остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant). (various references)

Chinese 

有壳. (various references)

Czech

chrupavý (crisp), okoralý (parched, stale), nevrlý (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, gruff, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, petulant, querulous, snappy, sour, splenetic, sullen, surly), mrzutý (annoying, awkward, bad tempered, chuff, crabbed, cranky, cross, dumpish, frumpish, glum, grouchy, joyless, Moody, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vexatious), mrzoutský (cantankerous, crabbed, crotchety, morose, querulous), křupavý (crisp, crunchy). (various references)

Danish

crustosus (crusted), skorpet, skorpedannende (crusted), skorpedaekket (crusted), skorpeagtig. (various references)

Dutch

crustosus (crusted), crusteus (crusted), korstend (crusted), korstachtig. (various references)

Farsi 

پوسته مانند, سخت (Adjacent, Chronic, Demanding, Difficult, Dogged, Dour, Eburnated, Exquisite, Grave, Grim, Rigid, Rigorous, Rocky, Rugged, Serious, Severe, Sore, Steely, Stratify, Stringent, Strong, Troublesome), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden). (various references)

Finnish

kuorettunut, äkeä (angry, cross, vehement). (various references)

French

crustiforme, crustacé (crusted), croustillant (crisp), croûteux (crusted), hargneux (crabbed). (various references)

German

crustosus (crusted), crustaceus (crusted), rösch (crisp), mürrisch (cantankerous, crabby, crotchety, dour, fractious, glum, glumly, grumpy, liverish, morose, morosely, peevish, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly, testy), krustoes (crusted), krustig (crustal, encrusted), krustenartig, knusprig (crisp, crisply, crispy, crunchy, luscious), barsch (abrupt, abusive, bass, blunt, brusque, coarse, crude, crustily, curt, harsh, impolite, perch, peremptory, rude, short, shortly, unceremonious). (various references)

Greek 

κακότροποσ (ill natured), σκληρόσ (bloody minded, callous, cold-hearted, cruel, flinty, hard, scirrhous, steely, stiff, stony, stubbed, stubbly, tough, truculent), με κρούστα, εφελκιδώδης (crusted). (various references)

Hebrew 

קש�" (adamant, difficult, formidable, hard, harsh, heavy, severe, stern, stiff, Strait, tough), קרומי (filmy, membraneous), בעל קרום, ר�'זן (bad tempered, cantankerous, ill tempered, irascible, peppery, petulant, tartar). (various references)

Hungarian

mogorva (as cross as two sticks, bearish, cheerless, crabbed, criss cross, disagreeable, disgruntled, grim, grouchy, grousing, gruff, have the sullens, ill tempered, like a bear with a sore head, morose, pouty, saturnine, snapping, snuffy, somber, sulky, sullen, surly, testy), kérges (callous, callused, crusted, crusted over), zsémbes (churlish, crabby, cross-grained, currish, disgruntled, grouchy, grousing, gruff, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, john blunt, like a bear with a sore head, nagging, shrewd, shrewish, snapper, snappish, surly, testy, vixenly), héjas (husky), fanyar (acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, austere, dry, frumpish, harsh, sour, tart). (various references)

Indonesian

marah (angry, chafe, crabbed, indignant, irate, mad, shirty, wrathful, wroth), keras (hard, heady, keen, killing, loud, rigorous, severe, strict, stringent, tang, wicked). (various references)

Italian

crostoso (crusted), irascibile (bad tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crotchety, irascible, pettish, quick tempered, sharp-tempered, short, short tempered, snorty, sore). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

気難しい (fastidious, hard to please, moody). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きむずかしい (fastidious, hard to please, moody), きむづかしい (fastidious, hard to please, moody). (various references)

Korean 

외각이 있�". (various references)

Manx

scroigagh (crustacean, crusted, skin-deep). (various references)

Pig Latin

ustycray.(various references)

Portuguese

crustiforme, com crosta (crusted), rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss-cross, currish, faultfinding, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretful, frumpish, grouty, gruff, harsh, moody, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), mal-humorado (bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, glum, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, moody, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), irritável (bilious, crab, crabbed, edgy, fretful, irascible, irritable, liver-colored, liver-coloured, livery, nervous, nervy, petulant, shirty, short-tempered, techy, testy, tetchy, touchy, waspish), duro (adamant, callous, cornered, crapy, die-hard, flinty, grueling, gruelling, gruff, hard, hard-boiled, hard-up, heartless, iron, iron-bound, jarring, marble, non-ductile, racking, rocky, rough, rugged, set, severe, shrewd, sinewy, solid, stand-up, stern, stiff, toilsome, tough, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unyielding, wiry). (various references)

Romanian

uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), ursuz (churlish, crabbed, crabby, gnarled, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, morose, peevish, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), morocãnos (adust, crabbed, cross-grained, grouty, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, morosely, peevish, snuffy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy), iritabil (choleric, combustible, crabbed, excitable, fretful, gusty, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, petulaht, petulant, testy, tetchy, ticklish, waspy), arţãgos (cantankerous, contradictious, crabbed, cross-grained, currish, fractious, gruff, peevish, pettish, quarrelsome, snappy), acoperit cu coajã (scaled). (various references)

Russian 

резкий (abrupt, acrid, acute, bitter, bluffy, brusque, curt, harsh, incisive, jarring, keen, loud, pipy, rough, rude, screechy, sharp, short, shrewd, strident, tart), раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy), застарелый, покрытый корой (corticate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koji ima koricu. (various references)

Spanish

crujiente (creaking, creaky, crisp, crunchy, rustling), costroso (scabby). (various references)

Swedish

vresig (crabbed, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, disagreeable, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, morose, peevish, perverse, ratty, sulky, vinegary), skorpartad, knarrig (grumpy, pettish, petulant, ratty). (various references)

Turkish

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), kabuklu (barky, crusted, hard-shell, husky, podded, shelled, sloughy, testacean, testaceous), kabuğumsu, kıtır kıtır (brittle, crisp, crunchy), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), haşin (austere, forbidding, harsh, inclement, rough, rude, severe, stern, truculent), asabi (choleric, hot-blooded, hot-headed, irritable, nervous, prickly, quick tempered, ratty, short tempered, techy, testy, waspish). (various references)

Ukrainian

твердий (callous, choky, consistent, coriaceous, crisp, deep-seated, firm, hard, hard and fast, resolute, settled, solid, staunch, steadfast, stern, strong, tough), вкритий кіркою (crusted), з осадком (crusted), дразливий (choleric, crabby, fractious, huffish, pettish, quick tempered, sore, splenic, techy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có vỏ cứng cứng giòn c� u nh� u, hay gắt gỏng cộc cằn. (various references)

Misspellings

"Crusty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cerrutty, Corpusty, Crauste, Cristi, Cristy, crost, Crotty, crsut, cruisy, crushy, crustia, Cruzatt, Custy, Custys, cutsy, Krsty, Krust, Krusty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: curtsy.

-1 letter: crust, curst, rusty, yurts.

-2 letters: crus, curs, curt, cuts, cyst, rust, ruts, scry, scut, yurt.

-3 letters: cry, cur, cut, rut, sty, try, uts.

-4 letters: us, ut.

+1 letter: citrusy, curtesy, curtsey.

+2 letters: clustery, courtesy, crustily, curtseys, custardy, rusticly, scrutiny, security.

+3 letters: carryouts, casuistry, costumery, curiosity, curtseyed, curtsying, customary, obscurity, rusticity, sanctuary, supercity.

+4 letters: accusatory, byproducts, cotylosaur, counterspy, countryish, courtyards, curtseying, cystinuria, eucaryotes, eurythmics, excusatory, insecurity, osculatory, rustically, scurrility, secularity.

+5 letters: atrociously, cotylosaurs, countryseat, countryside, courteously, courtesying, customarily, cysticercus, cystinurias, discourtesy, eurhythmics, fractiously, ichthyosaur, incuriosity, inscrutably, muscularity, obfuscatory, persecutory, perspicuity, promiscuity, specularity, subcategory, subcontrary, subliteracy, uncustomary, vascularity, voyeuristic.