crappy

English

Etymology

crap +‎ -y

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæpi/
Rhymes: -æpi
Homophone: crappie

Adjective

crappy (comparative crappier, superlative crappiest)

(chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
That is such a crappy car.

The referee just made a really crappy call.

The food there used to be good but now it's crappy.
(chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, especially with "feel") Bad, sick, or depressed.
I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.
(chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
Put the crappy diapers in the blue pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.

Usage notes

Nouns to which "crappy" is often applied: job, day, weather, thing, food, movie, apartment, life, service, mood, hotel, car, phone, town, product, attitude, software, household goods.

Alternative forms

crap (chiefly Britain)

Synonyms

(covered in crap): shitty, poopy
(of very poor quality): shitty, lousy, tatty; see also Thesaurus:low-quality

Translations

of poor quality

Chinese:
Cantonese: 差 (caa¹)

Mandarin: 爛 (zh), 烂 (zh) (làn)
Esperanto: aĉa (eo)
Finnish: paska (fi)

French: merdique (fr)
German: beschissen (de), (euphemism) bescheiden (de)
Greek: του κώλου (tou kólou), για πέταμα (gia pétama)
Russian: дерьмо́вый (ru) (derʹmóvyj), сра́ный (ru) (srányj), говённый (ru) (govjónnyj)
Swedish: kass (sv), skitdålig (sv), urusel (sv)

covered in, containing feces

Danish: belortet
Dutch: bekakt (nl)

German: verkackt (de)
Greek: χεσμένος (el) (chesménos)

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