crust

nounverbcommon in dialogue

//kɹʌst//
//kɹʊst//

A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.

noun

1
A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
2
The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
3
An outer layer composed of pastry
Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
They […] made the crust for the venison pasty.
4
The bread-like base of a pizza.
5
A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
6
The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
Holonyms: lithosphere < Earth
The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
7
The outermost layer of the lithosphere of any terrestrial planet.
Holonyms: lithosphere < planet
8
The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
9
informalA living.
to earn one's crust
Like most of us, I am frequently asked by friends and people I meet in business situations or round the dinner table what I do to earn my crust.
10
informalNerve, gall.
You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
11
datedThe head.
“Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
12
Variant of crust punkEllipsis of crust punk, a subgenre of punk music.

Etymology

From Middle English cruste, from Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀- (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रूड् (krūḍ, “thicken, make hard”). Doublet of crusta.

verb

1
To cover with a crust.
The whole body is crusted over with ice.
Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
2
To form a crust.
, The Goblin Reign Boxed Set Thistle held her hand over the wound and pressed a wad of tree moss against it. "Don't move," she said. "Let it crust."

Forms

plural: crusts
past tense: crusted
past participle: crusted
present participle: crusting
third person singular: crusts

crusher · Someone or something that crushes.Crusher · A surname crushing · That crushes; overwhelming.

crust · A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.

Cruz · A surname from Ibero-Romance.cry · To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.crying · That cries.

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