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Brittle vs Crusty - What's the difference?

brittle | crusty |

As adjectives the difference between brittle and crusty

is that brittle is inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure while crusty is pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread.

As nouns the difference between brittle and crusty

is that brittle is (uncountable) a confection of caramelized sugar and nuts while crusty is (chiefly|british) a tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.

brittle

English

(wikipedia brittle)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Inflexible, liable to break or snap easily under stress or pressure.
    • Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
    A diamond is hard but brittle .
  • * 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 329:
    • 'Do you suppose our convent, and I too, / Are insufficient, then, to pray for you? / Thomas, that joke's not good. Your faith is brittle .
  • Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
  • * Shortbread'' is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
  • (archaeology) Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
  • Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
    • What a brittle personality! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
  • (informal, proscribed) Diabetes Mellitus (DM), Merck manual Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.

    • Related terms

    * brittleness

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
    • As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle .
  • (uncountable) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.

    • Synonyms

    * brickle

    See also

    * break, breakable * short (adjective)

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    crusty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread.
  • (figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; peevish, surly, harsh.

    • Noun

    (crusties)
  • (chiefly, British) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
  • (slang) Dried eye mucus.
  • * 1999 , Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey , Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 0-7388-0467-3, page 155:
    • Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties , and then combed her hair with the hand.
  • * 2003 , Mary O'Connell, "Saint Anne", in Living with Saints , Grove Press, ISBN 0-8021-3926-4, page 209:
    • Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella?
  • * 2005 , Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey , Contemporary Press, ISBN 0974461490, page 51:
    • I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.
  • (chiefly, UK) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.

    • Synonyms

    * (dried eye mucus) gound (UK dialectal), sleep, sleepy dust (informal)

    References

    * * * * " crusty" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " crusty (adj. easily annoyed)" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * " crusty (n. an unwashed person)" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

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