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Chapped vs Crapped - What's the difference?

chapped | crapped |

As verbs the difference between chapped and crapped

is that chapped is (chap) while crapped is (crap).

As an adjective chapped

is (of skin) dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.

chapped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chap)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (of skin) dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface
  • * 1854 Sir Erasmus Wilson - Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management
    • For chapped' lips, or '''chapped''' nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, ... / For severely ' chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor ...
  • * 1913 ,
    • [...] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.

    crapped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crap)

    • crap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) crappe, also in plural: crappen, crappys, . Related to (l).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
  • (slang) Something of poor quality.
    • The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
  • (slang, vulgar) Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
    • The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but the professor judged it as utter crap .
  • (slang, vulgar) Faeces or feces.
  • (slang, vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
    • ''I have to take a crap
  • (slang) Useless object or entity.
    • What is that?'' ''It's just a bunch of crap

    Verb

    (crapp)
  • (vulgar, slang) To defecate.
    • Derived terms
    * crap on - (UK) To talk at length in a foolish or boring way. * To crap something out: to damage or destroy something.

    Adjective

    (crapper)
  • (chiefly, UK, colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) Of poor quality.
    • I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
    Alternative forms
    * crappy (chiefly, North America)
    Synonyms
    * lousy * shit * shite * bollocks * piss * fuck * Deuce

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
    • Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!
    Crap! I lost the game.
    What the crap ?!
    Aw, crap , I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.

    Etymology 2

    From "crab's eyes"

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gambling) A losing throw of 2, 3 or 12 in craps.
    • Derived terms
    * crap out * crapola * crapulation

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    References

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