Crusty vs Ill-humored - What's the difference?
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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.
(chiefly, British) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
(slang) Dried eye mucus.
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* 2003 , Mary O'Connell, "Saint Anne", in Living with Saints , Grove Press, ISBN 0-8021-3926-4, page 209:
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(chiefly, UK) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
Crusty is a related term of ill-humored.
As adjectives the difference between crusty and ill-humored
is that crusty is pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread while ill-humored is having a bad temper.As a noun crusty
is (chiefly|british) a tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.crusty
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(crusties)- Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties , and then combed her hair with the hand.
- 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?
- I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.
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)