crusty
adjective
2.
brusque and surly and forbidding
- “crusty remarks”
- “a crusty old man”
- “his curmudgeonly temper”
- “gruff manner”
- “a gruff reply”
Origin
From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.
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