different between crappy vs garbage

English

Etymology

crap +? -y

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?æpi/
• Rhymes: -æpi
• Homophone: crappie

Adjective

crappy (comparative crappier, superlative crappiest)

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

   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.

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

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

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

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

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "crappy" is often applied: job, day, weather, thing, food, movie, apartment, life, service, mood, hotel, car, phone, town, product, attitude, software, household goods.

Alternative forms

• crap (chiefly Britain)

Synonyms

• (covered in crap): shitty, poopy
• (of very poor quality): shitty, lousy, tatty; see also Thesaurus:low-quality

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• garbidge (obsolete or eye dialect)

Etymology

Late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).

Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ?earwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????b?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????b?d??/
• (US, humorous, imitating a French pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??(?)?b???/
• Hyphenation: gar?bage

Noun

garbage (uncountable) (chiefly US, Canada, Australia)

1. Food waste material of any kind.

   Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays

2. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

   The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

3. A place or receptacle for waste material.

   He threw the newspaper into the garbage.

4. Nonsense; gibberish.
5. (often attributively) Something or someone worthless.
6. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

Synonyms

• junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste
• See also Thesaurus:trash

Antonyms

• artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

garbage (third-person singular simple present garbages, present participle garbaging, simple past and past participle garbaged)

1. (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
   • 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):

     I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

   Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gut

Adjective

garbage (not comparable)

1. (informal) bad, crap, shitty

See also

• Wikipedia article on garbage

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gabage

Etymology

From a derivative of Old French garber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar?ba?d??(?)/

Noun

garbage (plural garbages)

1. bird dung
2. entrails, offal

Descendants

• English: garbage
• Yola: graabache, graapish

References

• “garb??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.