| 单词 | crusty |
| 释义 | crusty (once / 5272 pages) adj The adjective crusty is good for describing something that is crisp on the outside, like a loaf of French bread. You can describe something with a crunchy outer layer and a softer inside as crusty, but you can also use the word to mean "crabby" or "ill-tempered." Your mean old neighbor who yells at kids to get off his lawn is crusty, for example. While the literal meaning is older, this "cranky or surly" meaning has been around since the 1500's. The root of both is the Latin crusta, "rind, crust, shell or bark." WORD FAMILYcrusty: crustier, crustiest, crustily+/crust: crusted, crusting, crustlike, crusts, crusty, encrust/encrust: encrustation, encrusted, encrusting, encrusts/encrustation: encrustations USAGE EXAMPLESServed in the restaurant, the buffet includes fresh carrot, apple-lime and watermelon juices; cheeses and charcuterie; crusty breads; and various sweets. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) Scrape the crusty bits from the bottom and turn the mixture to allow other parts to brown. Los Angeles Times(Nov 29, 2016) She rubbed her crusty eyes as she asked if we had slept well. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) 1adj having a hardened crust as a covering Syn crusted, crustlike, encrusted covered overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form 2adj brusque and surly and forbidding crusty remarks a crusty old man Syn curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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