Word Meanings - CRUSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news Shak. (more info) 1. Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a

Additional info about word: CRUSTY

Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news Shak. (more info) 1. Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance. 2. Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRUSTY)

• Crabbed
• Sour
• morose
• crossgrained
• petulant
• churlish
• irritable
• crusty
• Cross
• Ill-tempered
• fretful
• illhumored
• peevish
• pettish
• snarling
• snappish
• spleeny
• splenetic
• fractious
• Factious
• Oppositions
• exceptions
• litigious
• malcontent
• adversative
• Morose
• Sullen
• austere
• moody
• crabbed
• surly
• Tart
• rancid
• coagulated
• turned
• harsh
• pungent
• acid
• bitter
• acetous
• acrimonious

Related words: (words related to CRUSTY)

• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• CRABBER
  One who catches crabs.
• CROSSLY
  Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• CROSSJACK
  The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• CROSSOPTERYGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
• CROSSBRED
  Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
• SNARL
  To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• SPLEENY
  1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• TURN-SICK
  Giddy. Bacon.
• CROSS-ARMED
  With arms crossed.
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• SATURNISM
  Plumbum. Quain.
• DIUTURNAL
  Of long continuance; lasting. Milton.