Crap vs Chap - What's the difference?
crap | chap |
(obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
(slang) Something of poor quality.
(slang, vulgar) Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
(slang, vulgar) Faeces or feces.
(slang, vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
(slang) Useless object or entity.
(vulgar, slang) To defecate.
(chiefly, UK, colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) Of poor quality.
(slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
(dated, outside, UK, and, Australia) A man, a fellow.
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, chapter=20 (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
* Steele
(Southern US) A child.
Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
* Blackmore
* Lyly
(Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 35:
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
* T. Fuller
(Scotland) A blow; a rap.
(archaic) The jaw (often in plural).
*1610 , , by Shakespeare
* Cowley
* Shakespeare
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
As a noun chap is
(dated|outside|uk|and|australia) a man, a fellow or chap can be a cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin or chap can be (archaic) the jaw (often in plural).As a verb chap is
of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.crap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crappe, also in plural: crappen, crappys, . Related to (l).Noun
(en-noun)- The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
- The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but the professor judged it as utter crap .
- ''I have to take a crap
- What is that?'' ''It's just a bunch of crap
Verb
(crapp)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)- 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 * DeuceInterjection
(en interjection)- 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"Derived terms
* crap out * crapola * crapulationAnagrams
*References
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----chap
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from in 16th century English.Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap .’}}
- If you want to sell, here is your chap .
Usage notes
This word's existence in the US can be seen in the Pennsylvania German term .Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* chappie * chappoEtymology 2
Related to chip .Verb
(chapp)- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
- Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
- The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look [...].
Derived terms
* chapped * chapstickNoun
(en noun)- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
Derived terms
* chappyEtymology 3
From Northern English .Noun
(en noun)- This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
- His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
- He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps .