Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

upper-crusty

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables: up-per-crusty
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or resembling the upper crust.

Informal

adj

Aristocratic; socially superior.

Derogatory; Informal

Example Sentences

"Bentleys, Rolls, Aston-Martins, Ferraris, even James Bond's Thunderbird. Very nice crispy, upper-crusty sensation, right in with the real boys."
"Richie now earns $100 a day designing similar saunas for upper-crusty clients throughout Los Angeles."
"Seeing Rosalynn, Betty and Lady Bird, the politicians' wives, looking upper-crusty, and the many other women in Houston looking like fools, I concluded that I was viewing long-ago plays about the aristocracy and the jesters who performed and danced before them"
"After the Hollywood fiasco, she spurned the grime of the police beat and the ordeal of the running trial story. She began to specialize in the social and the upper-crusty."
""Mom, upper crusty?" I said. She just couldn't help but use ancient expressions."

Etymology

From upper crust + -y.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more upper-crusty (comparative) most upper-crusty (superlative)

Questions

What does upper-crusty mean?: Of or resembling the upper crust.
Where does upper-crusty come from?: From upper crust + -y.

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