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Crapper is a rude, informal word for a toilet — the bowl, or sometimes the room. It is built from crap (a rude word for poo) plus -er: 'the thing you use for that.' People also say in the crapper to mean in serious trouble. You will hear it in casual American and British speech, never in a textbook or a polite request. Though actually, a famous story says it is named after Thomas Crapper, a Victorian whose company made toilets. His name is real, and soldiers in the First World War may have joked about his fixtures, which perhaps helped the word spread — but the word itself comes from crap, not from his surname. That surname Crapper comes from an old dialect form of cropper, a farmer, which is a different path entirely. Do not tell the story as if the toilet were simply named after him.
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組成crap + -er. Thomas Crapper's plumbing fixtures in First World War barracks may have helped the word catch on again, but that is a side story. His surname is from cropper (a farmer), not from this toilet word.
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- crapthe rude word for poo (and also for nonsense); a crapper is the place or thing for that.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
Crappername
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An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Cropper (“a cropper”).
crappernoun詞源 1/ˈkɹæ.pɚ/
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vulgarslangA chamber pot or toilet, particularly (dated) a flush toilet by Thomas Crapper.
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vulgarslangA lavatory or outhouse.
- I purchased your magazine for the first and last time. What the hell is it? (..) It wasn't even good reading material for the crapper.
crappernoun詞源 2/ˈkɹæ.pɚ/
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A half-glass of whiskey.
crappernoun詞源 3/ˈkɹæ.pɚ/
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vulgarderogatoryslangA rapper, or a performer of rap music.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。