Rustiest vs Crustiest - What's the difference?
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(rusty)
Affected by rust.
Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Having red or reddish-brown hair.
Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
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(crusty)
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.
* 1999 , Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey , Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 0-7388-0467-3, page 155:
* 2003 , Mary O'Connell, "Saint Anne", in Living with Saints , Grove Press, ISBN 0-8021-3926-4, page 209:
* 2005 , Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey , Contemporary Press, ISBN 0974461490, page 51:
(chiefly, UK) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
As adjectives the difference between rustiest and crustiest
is that rustiest is superlative of rusty while crustiest is superlative of crusty.rustiest
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(head)Anagrams
*rusty
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Derived terms
* rusty nailAnagrams
*crustiest
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(head)crusty
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(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)