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crapola

noun
/kɹæˈpoʊlə/US/kɹæˈpəʊlə/UK

Etymology

From crap + -ola; dating back to the 1940s and influenced by brand names containing -ola (e.g. Shinola, Granola, Crayola).

  1. derived from krappen
  2. derived from crappe
  3. derived from crape
  4. inherited from crappe
  5. suffixed as crapola — “crap + ola”

Definitions

  1. Items or material of poor quality or little importance.

    • Near-synonyms: garbage, junk, rubbish, nonsense
    • My junk drawer is full of all sorts of crapola.

  2. Feeling sick or bad.

    • You can eat badly and feel crapola or eat healthily and feel great. The choice is yours...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crapola. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA