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Definition of crusty in English: crustyadjectivecrustiest, crustier ˈkrʌstiˈkrəsti 1Having or acting as a hard outer layer or covering. 有硬壳的；有硬皮的 有硬皮的面包。 Lake Manyara was ringed by crusty salt deposits 马尼亚拉湖被硬壳似的盐沉积物围绕着。 Example sentencesExamples - Look at the soil - does the soil look soft and mellow, or is it hard and crusty?
- Try it as a tasty snack served on top of toasted crusty chewy bread.
- The bread basket full of hot, crusty rolls sets the right hospitable tone.
- The coconut bean soup was good, and the accompanying bread was fresh and crusty.
- But I'm still not eating the crusty bits of bread, even if you held me down and force fed me.
- There's a choice of Italian cold cuts - you know the list, capicollo to mortadella to prosciutto - served on crusty fresh bread.
- The formations tower over the river basin below like ancient sentinels standing watch over the crusty earth that conceals the fossilized treasures concealed within.
- They also may be dome-shaped with a crusty layer or ulceration.
- Alternatively, it is just as nice on its own with a crusty piece of bread.
- The chicken and mushroom soup was delicious and came with a sizeable section of hot crusty baguette.
- The resulting cake is golden, incredibly moist, light and fruity, with a slightly crusty edge, and it is very hard to stop at just one slice.
- The vegetable casserole stood on the newly tiled work top ready to re-heat, enough for two with the crusty brown bread she had bought that morning.
Synonyms crisp, crispy, well baked, well done crumbly, brittle, friable 2(especially of an old person) easily irritated. （尤指老人）易怒的，脾气坏的 一个易怒的老苏格兰法官。 Example sentencesExamples - Their great days are behind them, and like crusty old men, they've turned bitter and twisted, watching the young whippersnapper across the sea party, get hungover, and party again the next night.
- I guess the movie was targeted towards teenage girls, as opposed to an old crusty man such as myself.
- But crusty scholars in dusty rooms are not the only source of mathematical ideas.
- Old crusty reporters know that when an official denies anything, it's a good time to begin probing it.
- We were met off the plane by a crusty gentleman called Lukas who had been sent by the prominent and notorious pop band member's record company.
- He's crusty and he's tough, and he stands very firmly for his positions.
- He still lives with his crusty father Martin.
- He wants to play the crusty sergeant in those old war movies - the guy who doesn't flinch as bullets whiz by, while privates freak out.
- From the outset, she is not sure she will survive this touchy encounter with a legendary fisherman who taught her everything she knows and is one tough, crusty character.
- Cartoons usually depict archaeologists as crusty old fogies, covered in cobwebs, and obsessed with old bones and cracked pots.
- Let it never be imagined that this crusty scholar was not an independent thinker!
- An elderly, crusty monster of a man, with a voracious appetite for drink, and a vocabulary of approximately twenty words - all of which have subsequently entered the fecking public lexicon.
- There were young couples like us and old crusty looking investor types measuring the land and imagining how many units they could squeeze onto the property.
- The court rooms play host to crusty gout ridden old men that wouldn't know justice if it was to smack them on the snout.
- And that meant a group of tired and crusty councillors were not able to get to a very important item until late in the afternoon of Feb. 10.
- Knighted in 1944, he was the traditional crusty Englishman, on and off the screen; once, after dropping a catch, he stopped play to summon his butler to fetch his spectacles.
- She is all alone in the world, or so she thinks, when she suddenly inherits a rundown shack up north, which comes complete with a crusty old grandfather and some other surprising relatives she didn't know about.
- Are those gastronomic geniuses really a crusty lot?
- And you can't beat that crusty old hypocrite, Joseph, for comic relief.
- Add a crusty engineer and his manic assistant, and you have the makings of a team any law-abiding citizen should think twice before calling in to stop trouble.
Synonyms irritable, bad-tempered, irascible, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, tetchy, testy, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, choleric, bilious, liverish, cross-grained argumentative, quarrelsome, captious informal snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused British informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head North American informal cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded Australian/New Zealand informal snaky
nounPlural crustiesˈkrʌsti informal A young person who is homeless or travels constantly, has a shabby appearance, and rejects conventional values. 〈非正式〉脏皮士（指无家可归或常在外流浪的、衣冠不整并拒绝传统价值的年轻人） she cuts a curious figure amid the crusties and mud-stained tree-huggers Example sentencesExamples - There were some young crusty / hippy types controlling the juke box in the pub last night.
- Inside the venue was a mix of aging punks, football supporters, crusties and a smattering of Germans.
- Optimistic crusties with unusual skin disorders busked tunelessly on flutes.
- This week's model was some hippie / crusty chic - she had one of those interesting haircuts that are popular with alternative Italians - a long bit at the back, short on the sides and over part of the top.
- On TV it's just another spectacle, the usual suspects - students, lefties, crusties, CND, unions, blah, blah, blah - saying the usual things.
- There were lots of different sorts of people there - from outwardly completely conventional to complete crusties.
- There were a lot of crusty kids in there so it already stunk.
- And there's a couple of crusty guys with dreads sitting in there drinking milkshakes and stuff!
- ‘All my crusty pals are delighted,’ said my informant.
- What about those urban crusties who hate globalisation and all that stuff?
Synonyms vagrant, vagabond, homeless person, derelict, down-and-out
Derivativesadverb ˈkrʌstɪliˈkrəstəli To tell the truth, I've always rather enjoyed waking up, crustily or otherwise, and seeing a book collection far better than mine.
noun ˈkrʌstɪnəsˈkrəstinəs From that point on, his curious mix of affability, crustiness and wit had the audience hanging on every sung or spoken word. Example sentencesExamples - The bruschetta had a great balance of textures and flavors - the crustiness of the toast, the bite and the creaminess of the chickpeas and the snap of the vinegar and oil.
- Damp cotton wool can be used to clean away any crustiness around the eyes.
- An old African buffalo, or a Canadian bison, has, of course, his spells of crustiness, and is then unpleasant, but the boar is always peeved about something or other.
- It produces crustiness, stiffness, disease and dribbling.
Rhymesbustee, busty, dusty, fusty, gusty, lusty, musty, rusty, trusty Definition of crusty in US English: crustyadjectiveˈkrəstiˈkrəstē 1Having or acting as a hard outer layer or covering. 有硬壳的；有硬皮的 有硬皮的面包。 Lake Manyara was ringed by crusty salt deposits 马尼亚拉湖被硬壳似的盐沉积物围绕着。 Example sentencesExamples - Alternatively, it is just as nice on its own with a crusty piece of bread.
- Try it as a tasty snack served on top of toasted crusty chewy bread.
- The bread basket full of hot, crusty rolls sets the right hospitable tone.
- But I'm still not eating the crusty bits of bread, even if you held me down and force fed me.
- The vegetable casserole stood on the newly tiled work top ready to re-heat, enough for two with the crusty brown bread she had bought that morning.
- The coconut bean soup was good, and the accompanying bread was fresh and crusty.
- The chicken and mushroom soup was delicious and came with a sizeable section of hot crusty baguette.
- There's a choice of Italian cold cuts - you know the list, capicollo to mortadella to prosciutto - served on crusty fresh bread.
- Look at the soil - does the soil look soft and mellow, or is it hard and crusty?
- The formations tower over the river basin below like ancient sentinels standing watch over the crusty earth that conceals the fossilized treasures concealed within.
- They also may be dome-shaped with a crusty layer or ulceration.
- The resulting cake is golden, incredibly moist, light and fruity, with a slightly crusty edge, and it is very hard to stop at just one slice.
Synonyms crisp, crispy, well baked, well done 2(especially of an old person) outspoken and irritable. （尤指老人）易怒的，脾气坏的 Example sentencesExamples - Are those gastronomic geniuses really a crusty lot?
- Let it never be imagined that this crusty scholar was not an independent thinker!
- An elderly, crusty monster of a man, with a voracious appetite for drink, and a vocabulary of approximately twenty words - all of which have subsequently entered the fecking public lexicon.
- He's crusty and he's tough, and he stands very firmly for his positions.
- I guess the movie was targeted towards teenage girls, as opposed to an old crusty man such as myself.
- Old crusty reporters know that when an official denies anything, it's a good time to begin probing it.
- He wants to play the crusty sergeant in those old war movies - the guy who doesn't flinch as bullets whiz by, while privates freak out.
- We were met off the plane by a crusty gentleman called Lukas who had been sent by the prominent and notorious pop band member's record company.
- Knighted in 1944, he was the traditional crusty Englishman, on and off the screen; once, after dropping a catch, he stopped play to summon his butler to fetch his spectacles.
- There were young couples like us and old crusty looking investor types measuring the land and imagining how many units they could squeeze onto the property.
- And you can't beat that crusty old hypocrite, Joseph, for comic relief.
- Their great days are behind them, and like crusty old men, they've turned bitter and twisted, watching the young whippersnapper across the sea party, get hungover, and party again the next night.
- But crusty scholars in dusty rooms are not the only source of mathematical ideas.
- From the outset, she is not sure she will survive this touchy encounter with a legendary fisherman who taught her everything she knows and is one tough, crusty character.
- Add a crusty engineer and his manic assistant, and you have the makings of a team any law-abiding citizen should think twice before calling in to stop trouble.
- The court rooms play host to crusty gout ridden old men that wouldn't know justice if it was to smack them on the snout.
- And that meant a group of tired and crusty councillors were not able to get to a very important item until late in the afternoon of Feb. 10.
- Cartoons usually depict archaeologists as crusty old fogies, covered in cobwebs, and obsessed with old bones and cracked pots.
- He still lives with his crusty father Martin.
- She is all alone in the world, or so she thinks, when she suddenly inherits a rundown shack up north, which comes complete with a crusty old grandfather and some other surprising relatives she didn't know about.
Synonyms irritable, bad-tempered, irascible, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, tetchy, testy, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, choleric, bilious, liverish, cross-grained
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