Etymology

craptacular

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Today it means: Spectacularly awful; so poor in quality as to become a spectacle. Full definition →

English crap ← Middle English crappe ← Middle French crape
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The story

  1. Old Dutchkrappen
  2. Old Frenchcrappe
  3. Middle Frenchcrape
  4. Middle Englishcrappe
  5. Englishcrap
  6. English todaycraptacular

From crap + -tacular.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.