Talk:craptacular

British sense
I think the British sense is probably overspecific, and only the US one really exists for both. Equinox ◑ 16:43, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Origin
From what I've been able to find after ten minutes of searching on the Internet, craptacular is an invented portmanteau of "crap" and "spectacular" from the United States animated television series, The Simpsons, which debuted on 17 December 1989. That puts a lower limit on when the term first appeared. — QuicksilverT @ 23:54, 9 March 2016 (UTC)


 * The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English agrees with you. Equinox ◑ 00:06, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March 2016–March 2017
Supposedly British sense: "Intended to be perceived as spectacular, but actually perceived as extremely poor quality". (Not the US sense, which just means spectacularly crap.) Equinox ◑ 00:07, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks like a candidate for Cat:English autological terms... Chuck Entz (talk) 03:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The first citation is a mention. The others don't seem to clearly distinguish which sense is intended. The 2003 cite seems nearer to the more pejorative British sense, and the Simpsons one to the more positive US sense. — Pingkudimmi 05:52, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * RFV failed.__Gamren (talk) 14:29, 16 March 2017 (UTC)