Definizione monolingua

crusty

crusty (plural crusties)

1. (chiefly UK) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
2. (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 OConnell, ""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.

crusty (comparative crustier, superlative crustiest)

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

Definizione dizionario crusty

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Altri significati:

(chiefly UK) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.

(figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; peevish, surly, harsh.

Having a crisp texture, brittle yet tender.

grumpy, short-tempered

An old person.

Pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread.

(slang) Dried eye mucus.