crust
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”) via Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, 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”)
Pronunciation
Noun
crust (countable and uncountable, plural crusts)
- A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
- The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
- An outer layer composed of pastry
- The bread-like base of a pizza.
- (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
- The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- (uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.
- You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
- (music) Ellipsis of crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
- (British, informal) A living.
- Synonyms: daily bread, income, livelihood
- to earn one's crust
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Translations
any solid, hard surface layer
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outer layer of bread
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outer layer composed of pastry
bread foundation of pizza
outermost layer of a planet
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outer layer of crustacean
nerve, gall
Verb
crust (third-person singular simple present crusts, present participle crusting, simple past and past participle crusted)
- (transitive) To cover with a crust.
- (intransitive) To form a crust.
Translations
to cover with a crust
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to form a crust
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