45: crap Jan 22, 2015

Today's word is 'crap'. As with almost all non-acronym derived curse words such as 'snafu', the word 'crap' did not mean originally what the modern connotation suggests. It comes from the Anglo-Latin 'crappa' meaning ‘chaff.’ The original sense was chaff, later "residue from rendering fat," also "dregs of beer". The first use of the word in the modern sense of it was in the late 1800's.