crusty
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- crispy, hard
- irritable, cantankerous, cross, gruff, prickly, short-tempered, testy

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Related Words: irritable, snappish, waspish, choleric, cranky, irascible, splenetic, testy, crabbed, dour, saturnine, surly

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. crust‧y¹ /ˈkrʌsti/ adjective

1. bread that is crusty is pleasant to eat because it has a hard crust:
a crusty baguette

2. informal someone who is crusty is bad-tempered Synonym : grumpy:
a crusty old man

3. having a thin dry hard layer of something on the surface:
The lake was ringed by crusty salt deposits.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. crusty² noun (plural crusties) [countable] British English informal
a young person with a dirty and untidy appearance, usually one who has no permanent job or home and takes part in protests about protecting the environment

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲