Meanings (ES + gloss)
crujiente • crustáceo • de corteza dura
Having a crust, especially a thick one.
No one was there. But there was a cloth spread upon the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one, with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle of wine beside the pl…
gruñón • irritable
Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.
However kindly a friend may otherwise be, he soon turns crusty if asked to lend money.
Then somebody told a story about the Swedish Majesty's last sojourn in Norway. There, at a railway station, Oscar ran against a crusty old farmer who thought himself a lot better t…
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