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CRUSTY (crustier, crustiest)

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• CRUSTY (adjective)
The adjective CRUSTY has 2 senses:

1. having a hardened crust as a covering
2. brusque and surly and forbidding

Familiarity information: CRUSTY used as an adjective is rare.

• CRUSTY (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Having a hardened crust as a covering

Synonyms:

crusted; crustlike; crusty; encrusted

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Brusque and surly and forbidding

Synonyms:

curmudgeonly; gruff; ill-humored; ill-humoured; crusty

Context examples:

crusty remarks / a crusty old man / his curmudgeonly temper / gruff manner / a gruff reply

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

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