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crust

noun
/kɹʌst/

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.

  1. derived from *krustós✻
  2. derived from crusta
  3. derived from cruste
  4. inherited from cruste

Definitions

  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…

    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. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. The bread-like base of a pizza.

    2. A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf

      A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.

    3. 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.

    4. The outermost layer of the lithosphere of any terrestrial planet.

      • Holonyms: lithosphere < planet

    5. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

    6. A 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.

    7. Nerve, gall.

      • You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.

    8. The 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.”

    9. Ellipsis of crust punk, a subgenre of punk music.

    10. To cover with a crust.

      • The whole body is crusted over with ice.
      • Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.

    11. 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."

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Derived

biocrust, blackened crust, bleeding oak crust, breadcrust, continental crust, crack a crust, cradle crust, cruft, crustache, crustal, crustation, crustcore, crusted, crustless, crustlike, crustquake, decrust, earn a crust, earn one's crust, gypcrust, kissing-crust, milk crust, oceanic crust, overcrust, pie crust, pie crust collar, pie crust lease, shortcrust, thick-crust pizza, thin-crust pizza, upper crust

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at crust. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01crust02bread03dough04flour05pastry

A definitional loop anchored at crust. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at crust

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA