Crummy vs Crappy - What's the difference?
crummy | crappy |
(informal) bad; poor
(dated) Full of crumb or crumbs; crumby.
(dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
Small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. A common term when referring to a vehicle with a compartment separate from the cab, housing the silvicultural, logging or mining crew during transport.
Regional English
(chiefly, North America, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
Bad, sick, or depressed.
(chiefly, North America, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
As adjectives the difference between crummy and crappy
is that crummy is bad; poor while crappy is of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.As a noun crummy
is small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. A common term when referring to a vehicle with a compartment separate from the cab, housing the silvicultural, logging or mining crew during transport.crummy
English
Adjective
(er)- Do not bother buying crummy knives if you are serious about cooking.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "crummy" (bad, poor) is often applied: job, weather, hotel, thing, town, life, movie, food, world, school, idea, person.Noun
(crummies)crappy
English
Adjective
(er)- That is such a crappy car.
- The referee just made a really crappy call.
- ''The food there used to be good but now it's crappy .
- I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.
- Put the crappy diapers in the blue pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.