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upper-crusty en · ADJ

Etymology

From upper crust + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Of or resembling the upper crust.
2. (derogatory, informal) Aristocratic; socially superior.
   • Richie now earns $100 a day designing similar saunas for upper-crusty clients throughout Los Angeles. 1972, Robin Green, Mindfuckers, A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America, Including Material on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco, and Their Followers, page 311:
   • "Mom, upper crusty?" I said. She just couldn't help but use ancient expressions. 2016, Fred Shorten, Collective Choice, page 142:
   • After the Hollywood fiasco, she spurned the grime of the police beat and the ordeal of the running trial story. She began to specialize in the social and the upper-crusty. 1980, Lee Israel, Kilgallen, page 106:
   • Seeing Rosalynn, Betty and Lady Bird, the politicians' wives, looking upper-crusty, and the many other women in Houston looking like fools, I concluded that I was viewing long-ago plays about the aristocracy and the jesters who performed and danced before them 1977, Time, volume 110, page 4:
   • Bentleys, Rolls, Aston-Martins, Ferraris, even James Bond's Thunderbird. Very nice crispy, upper-crusty sensation, right in with the real boys. 1963, Patrick Gordon Campbell, Brewing Up in the Basement, page 49:

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