Crap vs Litter - What's the difference?
crap | litter |
(obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
(slang) Something of poor quality.
(slang, vulgar) Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
(slang, vulgar) Faeces or feces.
(slang, vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
(slang) Useless object or entity.
(vulgar, slang) To defecate.
(chiefly, UK, colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) Of poor quality.
(slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
* Shakespeare
(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
* D. Estrange
(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
* Jonathan Swift
(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
A covering of straw for plants.
* Evelyn
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .
To strew with scattered articles.
* Jonathan Swift
To give birth to, used of animals.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Shakespeare
To produce a litter of young.
* Macaulay
To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
* Bishop Hacke
* Dryden
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
* Habington
As a noun litter is
(countable) a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.As a verb litter is
to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).crap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crappe, also in plural: crappen, crappys, . Related to (l).Noun
(en-noun)- The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
- The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but the professor judged it as utter crap .
- ''I have to take a crap
- What is that?'' ''It's just a bunch of crap
Verb
(crapp)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)- 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 * DeuceInterjection
(en interjection)- 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"Derived terms
* crap out * crapola * crapulationAnagrams
*References
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----litter
English
Noun
(wikipedia litter)- There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.
- A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .
- Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.
- Take off the litter from your kernel beds.
Synonyms
* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet * (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junkDerived terms
* cat litter * litter bin * litter bug, litterbug * litter frogVerb
(en verb)- the room with volumes littered round
- We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.
- The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.
- A desert where the she-wolf still littered .
- Tell them how they litter their jades.
- For his ease, well littered was the floor.
- The inn where he and his horse littered .