crusty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.
Base: crust
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: crustier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crustiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crusties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crustie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a crust, especially a thick one.
pos: adj
examples: No one was there. But there was a cloth spread upon the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one, with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle of wine beside the plate
gloss: Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: However kindly a friend may otherwise be, he soon turns crusty if asked to lend money.
Then somebody told a story about the Swedish Majesty's last sojourn in Norway. There, at a railway station, Oscar ran against a crusty old farmer who thought himself a lot better than a mere king and kept his hat on.
Visitors to Maine often expect to find such colorful characters at every turn. In fact, Governor Angus King once said that if he could just strategically position a suitable crusty yet benign "Mainah" on the porch of every general store or end of every lobster wharf, giving people asking for directions the standard reply of "You can't get theyah from heyah," tourism revenue would triple.
gloss: Of very low quality; crude visuals or harsh, granular sound.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The door opened with a crusty squeak that echoed in the silent room.
The old vinyl record made a crusty crackling sound as the needle hit it.
A crusty sound came from the rusted hinges of the gate.
gloss: A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
gloss: Dried eye mucus.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand.
Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella?
I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.
gloss: A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
examples: The Spirals are part of the crossover between the rave scene and the ‘crusty’ subculture—crusties being squat-dwelling anarcho-hippy-punk types named after their matted dreadlocks and post-apocalyptic garb.
Many of them, dressed in raggedy black combat gear, with haircuts that matched and mismatched punk, Rasta and Native American styles - a look which would later be codified as 'crustie' - began to join the travellers on the road. This influx from the cities changed the travelling scene, and after the Battle of the Beanfield, sections of the downcast and disillusioned travelling community began to seek oblivion through Special Brew superlager or even heroin as the dream of rural liberation turned sour.
The predictable complaints began as soon as Extinction Rebellion launched its fortnight of protest in London, part of an international campaign of civil disobedience in as many as 60 cities worldwide. Politicians have moaned that the police are being too passive, and Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, labelled the protesters – who include a former Metropolitan police detective – “uncooperative crusties”.
gloss: Dried blood or serous fluid buildup following body piercing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Actually, I usually don't see crusties for up to a week after a new pierce, it takes some time before a new pierce is in that stage when it's actively pushing out dead skin cells and other gunk.
If you rotate the ring with the crusties still on it, it'll drag the bastards through the piercing and that hurts like the dickens.
Related words: upper-crusty
cruddy
crufty
Derived words: crustily
crustiness
uncrusty
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