> From: "Jon Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:30:04 -0000
>
> From: "Karl Dallas"
>
> > You don't have to euphemise crap as cr**. The word's derived from the
> > name of the man who invented the modern WC, Thomas Crapper.
>
> Wrong. Go to http://www.snopes.com/business/names/crapper.htm
>
> Chambers Dictionary give [Middle English crappe (chaffe) from Middle Dutch
> krappe, prob from krappen to tear off]
In terms of its most common modern meaning, the OED gives the following
origins:
6. CRAP, V.
coarse slang.
1. intr. To defecate. So {sm}crapping vbl. n.
1846 [see DUNNY n.2 1]. 1859 HOTTEN Slang Dict. 26 Crapping case, a
privy, or water-closet. 1874 Ibid. 132 Crap, to ease oneself by
evacuation. Crapping case, or ken, the water-closet. Generally called
crapping-castle.
Jeff
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