crust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: crusts
Etymology: From Middle English cruste, from Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀- (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रूड् (krūḍ, “thicken, make hard”).
Senses: glosses: A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
glosses: The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
examples: text: Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fifth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: They […] made the crust for the venison pasty.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: An outer layer composed of pastry
glosses: The bread-like base of a pizza.
glosses: A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
examples: text: The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The outermost layer of any terrestrial planet.
glosses: The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
examples: text: to earn one's crust
text: Like most of us, I am frequently asked by friends and people I meet in business situations or round the dinner table what I do to earn my crust.
ref: 1999, Norman Longworth, Making Lifelong Learning Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 1:
synonyms: daily bread
income
livelihood
glosses: A living.
examples: text: You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
text: “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Nerve, gall.
examples: text: “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
glosses: The head.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of crust punk, a subgenre of punk music.
Synonyms: sense: bread end-piece
word: heel
Derived terms: biocrust
blackened crust
bleeding oak crust
breadcrust
continental crust
crack a crust
cradle crust
cruft
crustache
crustal
crustation
crustcore
crusted
crustless
crustlike
crustquake
decrust
earn one's crust
gypcrust
kissing-crust
milk crust
overcrust
pie crust
pie crust collar
pie crust lease
shortcrust
thick-crust pizza
thin-crust pizza
upper crust
Related terms: custard
croustade
crouton
crusted
crusty
encrust