crusty

Modifying Another Word

• very: After a month or so the skin becomes very crusty.
• rather: The story's told of a rather crusty old lady who went along to a photographer's studio to have her picture taken.

Modifies a noun

• baguette: The frittata makes a brilliant picnic dish in summer served cold on its own or sandwiched in crusty baguettes.
• bread: Serve with crusty bread to soak up the juices.
• loaf: Coburg Round, crusty white loaf with a deeply cut cross on the top.
• roll: Split a crusty roll or a piece of french stick.
• patch: It shows itself through crusty yellow patches on the scalp.
• deposit: When this dries out in contact with air the protein is left behind as a crusty deposit.

Used with adjective complement

• become: After a month or so the skin becomes very crusty.