crusty
adjective
[ ˈkrʌsti ]
• having or acting as a hard outer layer or covering.
• "crusty bread"
• (especially of an old person) easily irritated.
• "a crusty old Scots judge"
Similar:
irritable,
bad-tempered,
irascible,
grumpy,
grouchy,
crotchety,
tetchy,
testy,
cantankerous,
curmudgeonly,
ill-tempered,
ill-natured,
ill-humoured,
peevish,
cross,
fractious,
disagreeable,
pettish,
crabbed,
crabby,
waspish,
prickly,
peppery,
touchy,
scratchy,
splenetic,
shrewish,
short-tempered,
quick-tempered,
dyspeptic,
choleric,
bilious,
liverish,
cross-grained,
argumentative,
quarrelsome,
captious,
snappish,
snappy,
chippy,
on a short fuse,
short-fused,
shirty,
stroppy,
narky,
ratty,
eggy,
like a bear with a sore head,
cranky,
ornery,
peckish,
soreheaded,
snaky,
crusty
noun
• a young person who is homeless or travels constantly, has a shabby appearance, and rejects conventional values.
• "she cuts a curious figure amid the crusties and mud-stained tree-huggers"
