Meanings
comparative more craptabulous · superlative most craptabulous
- slangvulgarExtremely awful.
Same problem that plagues nearly all amateur video - craptabulous sound.
2009 October 21, Wolfgang Wildeblood, “Re: Anyone check out my video?”, in aus.tv (Usenet)2 more examples
So Kenny stayed back and said notliing, and the dude took his issues and limped up to the register, and life went on, every bit as craptabulous as before, the whole thing a nonevent, a not-amazing nonstory.
2008, Charles Bock, Beautiful Children, Random House, published 2009, →ISBN, page 170[…] The same industry friends who have said that my career is dead because of one craptabulous movie?”
2011, Cheris Hodges, Too Hot for TV, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 28Synonyms: crapperific, craptacular, craptastic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveExtremely awful.
Origin
- Old Dutchkrappen
- Old Frenchcrappe
- Middle Frenchcrape
- Middle Englishcrappe
- Englishcrap
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
- Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
- Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
- Ancient Greekφανταστικός (phantastikós)
- Late Latinphantasticus
- Middle Frenchfantastique
- Englishfantastic
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂ti
- Proto-Italic*fāōr
- Latinfor, fā-
- Latinfābula
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Latinfābulōsus
- Middle Englishfabulous
- Englishfabulous
- Englishfantabulous
- Englishcraptabulous
Blend of crap + fantabulous.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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