Definitions
brusque and surly and forbidding
Word origin
From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.
Used in a sentence
“No one was there. But there was a cloth spread upon the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one, with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle of wine beside the plate”
“However kindly a friend may otherwise be, he soon turns crusty if asked to lend money.”
“Then somebody told a story about the Swedish Majesty's last sojourn in Norway. There, at a railway station, Oscar ran against a crusty old farmer who thought himself a lot better than a mere king and kept his hat on.”
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