crustless

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adjective

Having no crust.

RareScrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivecrustless (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecookingHaving no crust.

    1 cup crustless country bread, torn into pieces

    2007 June 6, “Recipe: Pork Meatballs With Yogurt Dressing”, in New York Times
    2 more examples

    This wasn't a new concoction of salt, sugar, and fat whose appeal was well known to these investors. Madison's $18 billion portfolio had contained the largest Burger King franchise in the world, the Ruth's Chris Steak House chain, and a processed food maker called Pierre whose lineup includes a champion of handheld convenience, the Jamwich, a peanut butter and jelly contrivance that comes frozen, crustless, and embedded with four kinds of sugars, from dextrose to corn syrup.

    2013 February 26, Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN

    From birth, Christian had an innate sense of flair and ceremony: in elementary school, indifferent to mockery, he would cut our peanut butter and jelly into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags.

    2015, Courtney Hodell, “Babes in the Woods”, in Meghan Daum, editor, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, pages 14–15

Origin

  1. Englishcrust
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  4. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  5. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  6. Englishcrustless

From crust + -less.

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APA

crustless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crustless

MLA

“crustless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crustless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crustless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crustless.

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