Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Vulgar Slang Inferior; worthless.
- adj. Vulgar Slang Miserable; wretched.
- adj. Vulgar Slang Mean; contemptible.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Of very poor quality.
- adj. informal, especially with "feel" Bad, sick, or depressed.
- adj. vulgar Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. slang of very poor quality.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very bad
Etymologies
- crap + -y (Wiktionary)
- From crap1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I would never use the word crappy, but I must give Levingston credit for so nicely summarizing my thesis even if he does dismiss it—ouch!”
“It's not the music's fault Michael Bay stuck it in crappy film like Transformers.”
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“I got all bloated and felt crappy from the yuck foods.”
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“Don't get sick (make healthy choices), and if you do get sick ...... (die quickly) I guess they should call it "the Crap-o (as in crappy) plan"!!!”
“Do you think that she'll actually get off the bus this time, or let the FEW fans she has left stand there and wait for hours, in crappy weather just to blow them off at the last minute like she did just recently??”
“While you hear things like Guy Kawasaki's "Don't worry, be crappy", a good entrepreneur's crappy is better than 95% of people's excellent.”
“It's one of the reasons I don't talk more about it (other reason: not being able to do stuff and feeling crappy is BORING), but I thought it was worth talking about because it's a problem I haven't seen discussed much.”
“Therefore it follows that a massive injustice is being perpetuated on thousands of children who get crappy instruction in crappy schools and never get a decent chance to go to college, even though if you had stuck them in a top-flight public school from 1st grade they'd definitely be Ivy League material.”
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“Baseball attendance in crappy spring weather is not the point, is it?”
“Nano technology is available to all, so people that don't want to work in crappy jobs, like, say, sanitation, or underpaid jobs like teaching and the police don't have to.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crappy’.
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Words of Wear
Words describing worn out objects
worn, tattered, threads, ratty, dirty, old, smudgy, hand me down, stained, threadbare, decrepit, shoddy and 21 more...
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Alles ganz verschieden
Listed various words that have come into my mind. Will edit them at some point - honestly.
dog-gold, shoulderlooker, mr. considering, the pigwoman, stevie is waiting, chingwybodganpwy, thelandscapeisstu..., couchsurfing, cappuccinodrinking, meat-eater, posher, mae rhaid i fi fynd and 581 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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Dimélion's "Worst of"
my least-favorite words of all.
spittle, sweets, delicious, milk, tasty, treats, shitty, crappy, -ass, nice, dainty, y'all and 17 more...
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stanton's Words
msg, sushi, taro, lychee, no big deal, the denver nuggets, swamp, aid-the-poor, rural labourer, toothpick, firecracker, clothes rack and 84 more...
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Craaaaaaaaaaaaap!
My parting word should I fall off a cliff (Ã la Homer Simpson, Homer 3D) and, God willing, given the presence of mind necessary to form a fitting goodbye.
Also a list of words with t...crapulous, crapulence, holy crappy moley, craptastic, crapulent, craps, crappleberry, crap out, crapshoot, crapshooter, crapaud, craptacular and 13 more...
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treesej's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crappy.
milosrdenstvi Observed in the lead article of this week's Time Magazine. Even though there's hardly any stigma of vulgarity in such an adjective, still a little surprising to me at least. Oct 26, 2010