crap

• n. 廢話；廢物；屎；拉屎
• vi. 擲骰子；拉屎
• n. (Crap)人名；(英)克拉普

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.

1. Why don't you just cut the crap and open the door.

你為什麽不能停止廢話去把門打開。

來自柯林斯例句

2. It is a tedious, humourless load of crap.

那是一堆枯燥乏味、毫無幽默感的廢話。

來自柯林斯例句

3. He's so full of crap.

他淨胡說八道。

來自《權威詞典》

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。

來自柯林斯例句

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.

來自辭典例句