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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Decrepit means broken down, debilitated with age, worn out, dottering. Decrapped is a lively alternative image for “reduced to crap”. Crap is a catchall for just about anything worthless in N.A., though apparently it can still be considered a 4-letter word in Britain (see comment here).
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arrived at the Side, totally decrapped House, without neighbours
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what’s not to love about a decrapped old man with a goat
(http://forums.deltagoodrem.com/lofivers … 58-50.html)
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The plane was the same decrapped antique that flew us out to Mineral Vody, I was already nervous.
(http://www.everestnews2004.com/stories2 … us2004.htm)
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Crap might be considered impolite or slang but hardly qualifies as a swear word in any social situation I can imagine – I don’t want anyone running away with the idea that its use could cause any serious offence over here. As one who has often heard a privy referred to as a ‘crapper’ or craphouse (much more refined than the far more common ‘shithouse’) I’m alarmed to find ‘crap’ has nothing to do with the great Thomas Crapper. What other nuggets of non-knowledge am I carrying about?
I’m wondering, David, whether you imagine ‘decrapped’ to have just two syllables and rhyme with, say, rewrapped? I imagine it having three, as in:
I am saying he is molding ancient and decrapid and needs to be put out to pasture. Answer: It is painful to see that old Fossil shaking and stumbling and …
www.yentering.com/robert+byrd+kkk
I am saying he is molding ancient and decrapid and needs to be put out to pasture. Answer: It is painful to see that old Fossil shaking and stumbling and …
www.yentering.com/robert+byrd+kkk
...the crap’s still there but also the possibility of rapid decline.
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