'Crusty' definitions:
Definition of 'crusty'
From: WordNet
adjective
adjective
Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill- humored, ill-humoured]
Definition of 'Crusty'
From: GCIDE
- Crusty \Crust"y\ (-[y^]), a.
- 1. Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Possibly a corruption of cursty. Cf. Curst, Curstness.] Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. [1913 Webster]
- Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crusty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- backed,
- barnyard,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- biggety,
- bitchy,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- brief,
- brusque,
- calcified,
- callous,
- calloused,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- case-hardened,
- cavalier,
- cheeky,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- chutzpadik,
- coarse,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusted,
- crystallized,
- curt,
- cussed,
- derisive,
- dirty,
- disagreeable,
- disrespectful,
- dour,
- excitable,
- facy,
- feisty,
- filthy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- fossilized,
- foul,
- fractious,
- fresh,
- gally,
- granulated,
- gratuitous,
- gross,
- gruff,
- hardened,
- harsh,
- hornified,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- incrusted,
- indurate,
- indurated,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- lapidified,
- malapert,
- mean,
- nervy,
- ornery,
- ossified,
- pert,
- perverse,
- petrified,
- rank,
- raunchy,
- reinforced,
- rigidified,
- rough,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saturnine,
- saucy,
- sclerotic,
- set,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- snappish,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- solidified,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- steeled,
- stiffened,
- strengthened,
- surly,
- testy,
- toughened,
- truculent,
- ugly,
- uncalled-for,
- vitrified,
- waspish,
- wise-ass