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有意思的英语单词起源 We focus on the origin of interesting words, idioms, and slang, science and technology...bilingual (Chinese and English) by Lewis Sandler, former lawyer and professor in Beijing, China since 1993 and now (11/19) in Presque Isle, Maine, interviewing ordinary people leading ordinary lives. Welcome to view my other websites listed on the right side of this page.
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Wednesday Oct 19, 2016
Crap, (#113)
Wednesday Oct 19, 2016
Wednesday Oct 19, 2016
No audio this podcast #113
crap slang...noun
something of extremely poor quality.
• nonsense.
• unwanted articles; rubbish.
Origin of crap:
Middle English: related to Dutch krappe, from krappen ‘pluck or cut off’, and perhaps also to Old French crappe ‘siftings’, Anglo-Latin crappa ‘chaff’. The original sense was ‘chaff’, later ‘residue from rendering fat’, also ‘dregs of beer’. Current senses date from the late 19th cent.
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