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crap | craw |

As nouns the difference between crap and craw

is that crap is the husk of grain; chaff while craw is the stomach of an animal.

As verbs the difference between crap and craw

is that crap is to defecate while craw is to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry.

As an adjective crap

is of poor quality.

As an interjection crap

is expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.

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

    Anagrams

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    References

    * English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    craw

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
  • The crop of a bird.

    • Synonyms

    * crop * gullet

    Derived terms

    * stick in one’s craw

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry
  • *{{quote-book, year=1828, author=David Macbeth Moir, title=The Life of Mansie Wauch, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner. }}