Search results
What does the word crap mean? There are 16 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word crap, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. crap has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. plants (late 1600s) finance (late 1600s) beer (mid 1700s) anatomy (1840s)
crap - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. All Free.
Definition of crap noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Mar 26, 2004 · what one says when one is afraid to say shit
By the early 1900s, these definitions of crap were well established: (1) to defecate, (2) excrement, (3) the act of defecation, (4) rubbish, and (5) nonsense. And of course, there was the noun craps, denoting the game of dice and having origins in the British game of hazard. Here are a few example of these 19th-century-originating senses in action:
Crap definition: An act of defecating. Origin of Crap From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappen, crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Old French crappe, crapin ("chaff"; compare Medieval Latin crappa (plural), also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”).
a crap game Word Origin Middle English: related to Dutch krappe , from krappen ‘pluck or cut off’, and perhaps also to Old French crappe ‘siftings’, Anglo-Latin crappa ‘chaff’. The original sense was ‘chaff’, later ‘residue from rendering fat’, also ‘dregs of beer’.
