One picture holds nearly the whole page: the stuff that gets thrown away. The oldest recorded meaning is chaff — the dry husk that comes off grain when it is beaten, the part swept off the floor while the grain is kept. From there the word moved to the body's own leftovers, and then it stopped being about substances at all and became a way of saying 'this is the part to throw away'. Said about objects, it means junk nobody needs. Said about a film or a phone, it means the thing is not worth keeping. Said about someone's claim, it means their words are the husk and not the grain. Said about how you are being treated, it means what you are being handed is worthless. And shouted on its own, it is the sound of a moment going the same way.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives crap from Middle English crappe 'chaff', from Middle French crape and Old French crappe 'chaff', ultimately from Old Dutch krappen 'to cut off, pluck off', and notes it is related to crop.
維基詞典記載 crap 來自中古英語 crappe（穀殼、糠），再往前是中古法語 crape、古法語 crappe，最後追到古荷蘭語 krappen（切下來、摘下來），並且跟 crop（作物、收成）有關。所以「切下來、要丟掉的那一層」不是後來的比喻，而是這個字一開始的意思。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki snapshot 3f6f69a190036ae4), etymology_text for crap (etymology 1) and etymology 2 ('From crab's eyes').
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原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crapnoun詞源 1/kɹæp/
- 1
obsoleteThe husk of grain; chaff.
- 2
vulgarslangSomething worthless or of poor quality; junk.
- The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
- "My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd care to join us?"
- 3
vulgarslangNonsense; something untrue.
- The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
- 'Be seeing you.' 'Crap,' said the negro with conviction. 'Get goin'.'
- 4
vulgarslangFeces.
- I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.
- 5
vulgarslangAn act of defecation.
- I have to take a crap.
crapverb詞源 1/kɹæp/
- 1
vulgarslangTo defecate.
- That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
- 'Well, the case is all yours,' said Binswanger grudgingly. 'But the Commissioner sure don't like having this bastard crappin' away on his own front doorstep while Mr Hoover sits down in Washington well to leeward of the stink. Why don't we pull him in on tax evasion or misuse of the mails or parkin' in front of a hydrant or sumpn? Take him down to the Tombs and give 'em the works? If the Feds won't do it, we'd be glad to oblige.'
- 2
vulgarslangTo defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
- He almost crapped his pants from fright.
- 3
vulgarslangTo bullshit.
- Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.
crapadj詞源 1/kɹæp/
- 1
vulgarOf poor quality.
- I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
crapintj詞源 1/kɹæp/
- 1
vulgarslangExpression 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.
crapnoun詞源 2/kɹæp/
- 1
dicegamblinggamesA losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- Conservative-Reform Alliance Party
- craps
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。