hardcrusted
adjEtymology From hard + crusted.
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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:
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- In the end he went over to the fire and helped himself. There was a hot brew and bread, flat and hardcrusted. It hurt his teeth and he almost gave up until hunger gave him the idea of dipping it in his drink.1984, Monica Hughes, “Rowan”, in Devil on my Back, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 67:
- Finally we brought up the cow-dung. 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:
- Jubilee Gardens feeds urban dwellers on the east side of the city. Volunteers cleared the vacant lot of broken bricks, shattered glass, and paper trash. They plowed under the hardcrusted earth, enriched the soil, and divided it into sections. Today, interested families may claim a small garden plot and produce fresh vegetables all summer long.1993, Judith A. Olin, “Seed Thoughts: Mark 4:26-34”, in John K. Bergland, compiler, Abingdon Preacher’s Annual 1994, Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 185:
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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), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Lincoln Record Society; The Boydell Press, published 1993, →ISBN, volume II (June 15 1915 - April 20 1919), page 199:
- 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 aversion had become hardcrusted in the heat of the bitter union drives.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 (Boom and Bust), page 201:
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- How are people like popcorn? (Student choice.) How can we get through to hardcrusted people.? (People, like popcorn, have a great beautiful potential. When warmed they respond and open up to reveal their greatness.)1980, Neil W. Decker, “Caring”, in What’s the Object? A Way to Reach Them, volume I, Layton, Ut.: KSG Publishing, published 1985, page 6:
- Leong [Choon Cheong], studying national servicemen, concluded that “. . . theirs is a practical hardcrusted morality . . . there is more refraining than doing . . . largely negative moral behaviour and [goading this is] the fear of punishment” (Leong, 1978, p. 12).1995, Saravanan Gopinathan, “Singapore”, in Paul Morris, Anthony Sweeting, editors, Education and Development in East Asia (Reference Books in International Education, 31; Garland Reference Library of Social Science, 942), New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 99:
- Now I don’t want it to be mistaken that I think Harlan’s perfect. He’s not. He can be a bit hardcrusted when it comes to his views.2003 April, Lisa Samson, Songbird, New York, N.Y.: Warner Faith, →ISBN, page 288: