crusted
/ˈkɹʌstɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having or consisting of a crust.
adj
adj
Extremely conservative; hidebound; firmly established and inflexible.
verb
simple past and past participle of crust
Example Sentences
- "The snow had all fallen from the trees, and the snow was very crusted by the action of the sun by day and succeeding frost at night, but not sufficiently to bear our weight.·"
- "Concentric crusted structure may be formed in very different ways ."
- "Theories explaining infiltration into layered or crusted soils have been developed ."
- "If a sore is very crusted, you can soak it in warm, soapy water to loosen the crust."
- "Backstreet is particularly known for its "crusted” dishes, including mustard-crusted salmon and sesame-crusted shrimp."
- "The ulcerated form of the tertiary syphilide, like that of the papular, almost invariably developes from the crusted modifications."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *krews- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *krustós Proto-Italic *krustosder. Latin crusta Anglo-Norman crustebor. Middle English cruste English crust Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English crusted From crust + -ed.