What is "crusty" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does crusty mean in English? Meaning of crusty definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "crusty" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "crusty": having a hardened crust as a covering

Adjective

  • Meaning: having a hardened crust as a covering
  • Synonyms: crusted crustlike crusty encrusted
  • Similar: covered
  • Meaning of "crusty": brusque and surly and forbidding

    Adjective

  • Meaning: brusque and surly and forbidding
  • Example: crusty remarks a crusty old man his curmudgeonly temper gruff manner a gruff reply
  • Synonyms: crusty curmudgeonly gruff ill-humored ill-humoured
  • Similar: ill-natured
  • Adjective: Pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread.(figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; peevish, surly, harsh.
  • Synonyms:

    brusque, cranky, sarcastic, gruff, prickly, irascible, abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabby, cross, curt, dour, harsh, peevish, saturnine, scornful, short, short-tempered, snappish, snippy, surly, testy, touchy, crabbed, snippety, ill-humored, snarling, splenetic, vinegary, crisp, crunchy, friable, hard, short, crispy, well-baked, well-done,

    Antonyms:

    kind, polite, cheerful, pleasant, pliable, soggy, happy, nice, flexible, pliant, soft, cheerful, pleasant, pliable, soggy, happy, nice, flexible, pliant, soft,

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    crusty in English: crusty
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