different between crass vs crap

English

Etymology

From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k?æs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Adjective

crass (comparative crasser, superlative crassest)

1. coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination
   • 2002, Mike Tyson to the Media,

     You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person.

2. materialistic
3. dense
4. Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.

Antonyms

• (coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive): delicate, sensitive, refined

Derived terms

• crassly
• crassness

Translations

Anagrams

• csars, scars

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 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.

Noun

crap (usually uncountable, plural craps)

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

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

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

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crap (third-person singular simple present craps, present participle crapping, simple past and past participle crapped)

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

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

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• crap on (“to talk at length in a foolish or boring way”) (UK)
• crap something out (“to damage or destroy something”)
• does a bear crap in the woods

Translations

Adjective

crap (comparative crapper, superlative crappest)

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

Alternative forms

• crappy (chiefly Canada, US)

Synonyms

• lousy
• shit
• shite
• bollocks

Interjection

crap

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

Translations

Etymology 2

From crab's eyes.

Noun

crap (plural craps)

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

Derived terms

• crap out
• crapola
• crapulation

References

• 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

Anagrams

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• crappe

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French crappe.

Noun

crap (plural crappes)

1. chaff, siftings of grain.

Descendants

• English: crap
• Yola: crap

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian krap and Bulgarian ???? (krap).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krap/

Noun

crap m (plural crapi)

1. Cyprinus carpio; European carp, common carp

Declension

Romansch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [krap]

Noun

crap m (plural craps)

1. stone

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English crap.

Noun

crap (plural crapès)

1. Part of a faggot or bush, withered furze, cut, but not made into faggots.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN