crap
/kɹæp/ · noun
Meaning
- The husk of grain; chaff.
- Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
- Nonsense; something untrue.
- Feces.
- An act of defecation.
- To defecate.
- To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
- To bullshit.
- Of poor quality.
- Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.
- A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
- Attributive form of craps.
- Initialism of Conservative-Reform Alliance Party, since merged into the Canadian Alliance.
Etymology / origin
Etymology tree Old Dutch krappender. Old French crappe Middle French crapebor. Middle English crappe English crap From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.
- krip(nl)→
- crappe(dum)→
- krappen(odt)→
- crappa(la-med)→
- crappe(fro)→
- crape(frm)→
- crappe(Middle English)→
- crap (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, cog, der, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- 運痴(Japanese) (cog)
- hampas(Malay) (cog)
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