英和和英

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈkɹæpi/
• 韻: -æpi
• Homophone: crappie

形容詞

crappy (comparative crappier, superlative crappiest)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.

   Synonyms: lousy, shitty, tatty; see also Thesaurus:low-quality

   That is such a crappy car.

   The referee just made a really crappy call.

   The food there used to be good but now it's crappy.

   • 2015, Zachary Petit, The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing‎, Penguin, →ISBN:

     Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.

   • 2022 July 29, Jennifer Miller, “Investing in Real Estate as Self-Care”, in The New York Times‎:

     She took a leap in 2019 and bought an investment property, a duplex in Missoula, Mont., intending to live in one unit and rent the other. “It was the crappiest house on the block,” she said.

   • 2024 May 2, Elizabeth Paton, “Will Shoppers Ever Care About the Destruction of the Planet?”, in The New York Times‎:

     “Many scientists and historians think we’re entering into a new epoch — one where things are simply … well, crappier,” declares the opening voice-over in a thick northern English accent (regularly used in Britain to indicate no-nonsense, tongue-in-cheek pragmatism).

2. (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, especially with "feel") Bad, sick, or depressed.

   Synonyms: miserable, piss-poor, shitty; see also Thesaurus:bad

   I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.

3. (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).

   Synonyms: poopy, shitstained, shitty

   Hypernyms: befouled, soiled; see also Thesaurus:unclean

   Put the crappy diapers in the brown pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.

別の表記

• crap (chiefly UK)

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