upper-crusty

English

Etymology

From upper crust +‎ -y.

Adjective

upper-crusty (comparative more upper-crusty, superlative most upper-crusty)

1. (informal) Of or resembling the upper crust.
2. (informal, somewhat derogatory) Aristocratic; socially superior.
   • 1963, Patrick Gordon Campbell, Brewing Up in the Basement, page 49:

     Bentleys, Rolls, Aston-Martins, Ferraris, even James Bond's Thunderbird. Very nice crispy, upper-crusty sensation, right in with the real boys.

   • 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:

     Richie now earns $100 a day designing similar saunas for upper-crusty clients throughout Los Angeles.

   • 1977, Time‎^[1], volume 110, page 4:

     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

   • 1980, Lee Israel, Kilgallen, page 106:

     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.

   • 2016, Fred Shorten, Collective Choice, page 142:

     "Mom, upper crusty?" I said. She just couldn't help but use ancient expressions.