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English

Etymology

From Middle English, equivalent to crust +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??sti/
• Rhymes: -?sti

Adjective

crusty (comparative crustier, superlative crustiest)

1. Having a crust, especially a thick one.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening

     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

2. (informal, figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.

   Synonyms: gruff, peevish, surly, harsh

   • 1922, Henry William Fischer, Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field

     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.

3. (informal) Of very low quality. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Synonym: inferior

Translations

Noun

crusty (plural crusties)

1. (chiefly Britain, informal) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
2. (slang) Dried eye mucus.

   Synonyms: (UK dialectal) gound, sleep, (informal) sleepy dust

   • 1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN, 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, 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, page 51:

     I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.

3. (chiefly Britain, informal) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
   • 1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press (2012) (?ISBN), page 135:

     The Spirals are part of the crossover between the rave scene and the ‘crusty’ subculture—crusties being squat-dwelling anarcho-hippy-punk types named after their matted dreadlocks and post-apocalyptic garb.

Alternative forms

• crustie

See also

• cruddy
• crufty

References

• crusty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “crusty” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "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)
• “crusty”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Anagrams

• curtsy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impet?g?, from impet?re (literally “to rush upon, assail, attack”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mp??ta????/
  • (UK)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mp??ta??o?/
• Rhymes: -a????

Noun

impetigo (plural impetigos or impetigoes or impetigines)

1. (pathology) A contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites.

Synonyms

• school sores

Derived terms

• impetigenous
• impetiginous

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impetigo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pe?.ti.?o?/

• Hyphenation: im?pe?ti?go

Noun

impetigo m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) impetigo

Latin

Alternative forms

• inpet?g?

Etymology

impet? +? -?g?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im.pe?ti?.?o?/, [?mp??t?i??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.pe?ti.?o/, [imp??t?i???]

Noun

impet?g? f (genitive impet?ginis); third declension

1. impetigo

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• pet?go

Related terms

Descendants

References

• impetigo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• impetigo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• impetigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impetigo. Doublet of impigem.

Noun

impetigo m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) impetigo (contagious bacterial skin disease)

Romanian

Etymology

From French impétigo.

Noun

impetigo n (uncountable)

1. impetigo

Declension