Adjective: crap
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | crapper |
| Superlative | crappest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old Dutch krappender.
3. Old French crappe
4. Middle French crapebor.
5. Middle English crappe
6. English crap
7. From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, 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.