crap

英 [kr?p] 美

CET6+TEM8中低頻詞暢通詞匯

第三人稱單數:?craps;過去式:?crapped;過去分詞:?craped;現在分詞:?crapping;名詞:?craps;

crap 拉屎，胡說

詞源不確定，可能來自擬聲詞。

crap (v.): "defecate," 1846, from one of a cluster of words generally applied to things cast off or discarded (such as "weeds growing among corn" (early 15c.), "residue from renderings" (late 15c.), underworld slang for "money" (18c.), and in Shropshire, "dregs of beer or ale"), all probably from Middle English crappe "grain that was trodden underfoot in a barn, chaff" (mid-15c.), from Middle French crape "siftings," from Old French crappe, from Medieval Latin crappa, crapinum "chaff." Related: Crapped; crapping.

Despite folk etymology insistence, not from Thomas Crapper (1837-1910) who was, however, a busy plumber and may have had some minor role in the development of modern toilets. The name Crapper is a northern form of Cropper (attested from 1221), an occupational surname, obviously, but the exact reference is unclear. Crap (v.) as a variant of crop (v.) was noted early 19c, as a peculiarity of speech in Scotland and the U.S. Southwest (Arkansas, etc.).
Draw out yere sword, thou vile South'ron!
Red wat wi' blude o' my kin!
That sword it crapped the bonniest flower
E'er lifted its head to the sun!

[Allan Cunningham (1784-1842), "The Young Maxwell"]
crap (n.): "act of defecation," 1898; see crap (v.). Sense of "rubbish, nonsense" also first recorded 1898.

4. You're the kind of person who affiliates himself with the kind of crap they spout.: 你這種人就會去附和他們的那些廢話。

5. We shipped a lot of crap out of Detroit in our day.: 當時我們就曾從底特律把大量劣貨裝運出去.