Thomas Crapper - Inventor of the toilet U-bend and ballcock
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The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words: the Dutch krappen (to pluck off, cut off, or separate) and the Old French crappe (siftings, waste or rejected matter, from the medieval Latin crappa). In English, it was used to refer to chaff and also to weeds or other rubbish. Its first recorded application to bodily waste, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in 1846, 10 years after Crapper was born, under a reference to a crapping ken, or a privy, where ken means a house.
This man was fated to give a crap
I read that in the tone and voice of the narrator from the History of the F Word.
So then is crap named after this guy or not?
Not unless he did all his inventing by age ten, no
Nope. That's the cool part.
Bit harsh calling him a ballcock mate.
I'm a grown man..... I'm a grown man.....
I’m not certain my dad was aware he was not making a joke for all those years
Excuse me, it's pronounced "Crapier." 😤
The... ballcock?
Oh, it's a float valve.
Never heard it called that before but it sounds like the same thing... The big ball in the cistern that stops the water flow.
British people will call anything a cock...