crappy

[Jonathan Lighter]

It sounded like "crappy" to me. But I don't suppose "crabby" is ruled out.

"Shitty" in this sense, however, is real.

JL


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 2/5/2014 03:59 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Also means "angry or irritable."
> >
> >Dr. Oz warns that your breakfast may make you "bi!#hy." (The word was on
> >the wall: he never actually uttered it.)
> >
> >What he said was, it can make you "cranky, crappy, and cantankerous."
>
> Did he say "crabby", which sounds similar and fits the other two?
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> Joel
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> >Don't believe it means "irritable"?  Well, Mr. or Ms. Smartguy, "shitty"
> is
> >used in precisely the same way, and has been for 40 years and more,
> >according to evidence in the HDAS vault.
> >
> >Cf. Urban Dictionary: "Shitty    Mean, unpleasant, bitchy. She was really
> >shitty about it."
> >
> >My experience contributes "You don't have to get so shitty about it."
> >
> >You might also want to cf. "Don't throw a shit-fit."
> >
> >JL
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