crapとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English crap, also in plural: crappen, crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), 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.

名詞

crap (usually uncountable, 複数形 craps)

1. (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
2. (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.

   The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.

3. (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Nonsense; something untrue.

   The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.

4. (slang, mildly vulgar) Faeces/feces.

   I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.

5. (slang, mildly vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.

   I have to take a crap.

同意語

• (faeces): poop, poo, dump, shit. Note: often used as a less vulgar synonym for, or minced form of, shit in all its senses.

派生語

動詞

crap (三人称単数 現在形 craps, 現在分詞 crapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 crapped)

1. (mildly vulgar, slang, intransitive) To defecate.

   That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.

2. (mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).

   He almost crapped his pants from fright.

3. (India, mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To bullshit.

   Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.

同意語

• (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate
• (to BS): See bullshit

派生語

• crap on (“to talk at length in a foolish または boring way”) (英国用法)
• crap something out (“to damage または destroy something”)
• does a bear crap in the woods

形容詞

crap (comparative crapper, superlative crappest)

1. (chiefly UK, Canada, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality.

   I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.

別の表記

• crappy (chiefly Canada, 米国用法)

同意語

• lousy
• shit
• shite
• bollocks

間投詞

crap

1. (slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.

   Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!

   Crap! I lost the game.

   What the crap?!

   Aw, crap, I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.

語源 2

From crab's eyes.

名詞

crap (複数形 craps)

1. (gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.

派生語

• crap out
• crapola
• crapulation

参照

• Michael Quinion (2004), “Crap”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• -carp, ACPR, APCR, CARP, Carp, RCAP, carp, parc, prac