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hardcrusted

hardcrusted adjective: having a hard crust.

Adjective

hardcrusted (comparative more hardcrusted, superlative most hardcrusted)

  1. Having a hard crust.
    • The pushcart Alleys. And then better and better with the bananas and apples and oranges. Soon green salads with olive oil and the good, hardcrusted bread like—back there.[1947], Willard Motley, chapter 39, in Knock on Any Door, London: Fontana Books, Collins, →OCLC, page 177
    • The piedmont surface was now more hardcrusted than before and gleamed like plates of roughly etched and scoured metal.1980, Charles Neider, “The Drake Passage and Tierra del Fuego”, in Beyond Cape Horn: Travels in the Antarctic, San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books, →ISBN, page 331
  2. (figuratively) Tough; stubborn; hard-nosed.
    • Joined in a Deputation of the Antislavery Society to Mr Hewens, Under Secretary for the Colonies, asking for a fuller enquiry into the shootings, finings, &c in Ceylon. We got no redress from this hardcrusted imperialist.1918 January 16, Edward Lee Hicks, “Wedn.Jan.16”, in Graham Neville, editor, The Diaries of Edward Lee Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln, 1910-1919 (The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society →ISSN; 82)...
    • In later years, after the Second World War, the larger companies sent a new generation of youthful executives into the region for the purpose of ameliorating this deeply rooted animosity, but even their Rotary-learned jocularity and genial expansiveness could not soften the bias of men whose...1963, Harry M[onroe] Caudill, “The Union Drives”, in Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area, Boston, Mass.: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, part IV...

Examples of hardcrusted in a sentence

  • There was a hot brew and bread, flat and hardcrusted.1984, Monica Hughes, “Rowan”, in Devil on my Back, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 67:
  • Edward loved this too, running his spade carefully under flat, hardcrusted wholemeal turds, like a baker taking his bread out of an oven, and sliding them solicitously into the sack.1988, David Parker, Building on Sand, North Ryde, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN, page 8:
  • Around his neck he wore a garland of rosquillas – large hardcrusted doughnuts covered in sticky white icing – on a string.1992, Gijs Van Hensbergen, chapter 6, in A Taste of Castile, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, →ISBN, page 104:
  • They plowed under the hardcrusted earth, enriched the soil, and divided it into sections.1993, Judith A. Olin, “Seed Thoughts: Mark 4:26-34”, in John K. Bergland, compiler, Abingdon Preacher’s Annual 1994, Nashville, Tenn....

Forms of hardcrusted

comparativemore hardcrusted
superlativemost hardcrusted
alternative formhard-crusted

Origin of hardcrusted

From hard + crusted.

Questions about hardcrusted

What does hardcrusted mean?
Hardcrusted means having a hard crust.
How do you use hardcrusted in a sentence?
There was a hot brew and bread, flat and hardcrusted.
What part of speech is hardcrusted?
Hardcrusted is an adjective.

Words near hardcrusted in the dictionary

  1. hardcourt
  2. hardcourts
  3. hardcover
  4. hardcovered
  5. hardcovers
  6. hardcrusted
  7. hardcunt
  8. hardcunts
  9. harddisk
  10. harddisks
  11. harddrive

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