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adjective

Crusty adj.

Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.

Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. "Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?"

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Etymology of 'Crusty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crusty" Quotes from Famous Books

... are all over, Our swords are all idle, The steed bites the bridle, The casque's on the wall. There's rest for the rover; But his armour is rusty, And the veteran grows crusty, As he yawns in the hall. 30 He drinks—but what's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! No bugle awakes ...

— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron

... the rashers this way and that in the pan until what with their delectable sight and smell, my hunger grew to a voracious desire that amazed me by its intensity. So, placing the frying-pan on the grass between my knees, I began to eat with the aid of my penknife and a hunch of crusty bread, and never in all my days ...

— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol

... He had a crusty clerk named Wemmick, as secret as he and a deal queerer. Wemmick lived in a little wooden cottage that he called The Castle, and which had its top cut out like a fort. It had a ditch all around it with a plank drawbridge. When ...

— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives

... crusty old man," sympathized Miriam. "It would serve him right if he did lose his old ...

— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower

... asking, all over this big city where the tenements abound, alleys in which generations of boys have lived and died—principally died, and thus done for themselves the best they could, according to the crusty philosopher of Skippy's set—with nothing more inspiring than a dead blank wall within reach of their windows all the days of their cheerless lives. Theirs is the account to be squared—by justice, not vengeance. Skippy ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

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