Crap vs Junk - What's the difference?

Junk is a synonym of crap.

In lang=en terms the difference between crap and junk

is that crap is expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay while junk is a fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

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

References

* English terms with multiple etymologies ----

junk

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (EtymOnLine).

Noun

(-)

Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.

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A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

* 1961 , William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine , page 7

Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk' hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck ' junk through all the hungry young cells.

(slang) Genitalia.

* 2009 , (Kesha), (Tik Tok)

I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk

Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk

Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

(nautical) Salt beef.

Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

(Lowell)

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* junk bond * junk bottle * junk DNA * junk drawer * junk food * junk hook * junkie * junk mail * junk ring * junkroom * junk science * junkshop * junk vat * junk wad * junkyard

Verb

(en verb)

To throw away.

Synonyms

* (throw away) bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See also

Etymology 2

From (etyl) junco, from (etyl) djong (Malay (adjong)).

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.