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# crusty

«crusty» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a hard, crisp outside, like fresh bread** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (crusty, crustier, crustiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Crusty means having a hard, crisp outside, like fresh bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#m1)

2) Crusty means covered with a hard dry layer (a crusty scab, crusty mud). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#m2)

3) A crusty person is grumpy and easily annoyed, often an old one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking and food, a crusty loaf has a crunchy crust. In first aid, a crusty scab means a cut is healing. In stories a crusty old sailor or neighbour is grumpy but may be kind inside. Phrases: crusty bread, crusty roll, crusty old man.

### examples

- I love warm crusty bread with butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#x1)
- The baker sold crusty rolls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#x2)
- My knee had a crusty scab. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#x3)
- His boots were crusty with dried mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#x4)
- The crusty old captain shouted at the sailors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#x5)
- The cheese had a crusty rind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/#x6)

### note

Comparison: crusty, crustier, crustiest. From «crust» + «-y». Similar: crisp, crunchy (food); grumpy (people).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crusty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crusty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.