What's the difference between crampy and crappy?

Crampy


Definition:

  • () Affected with cramp.
  • () Productive of, or abounding in, cramps.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Presenting symptoms included: crampy right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, pruritus, cholangitis, pancreatitis, hepatomegaly, and elevated liver function tests.
  • (2) The alimentary tract manifestations were diverse: symptoms included constipation, diarrhea, difficulty with feeding, projectile vomiting, crampy abdominal pain, and loud borborygmi; findings included thickened lips, nodules on the anterior third of the tongue, abdominal distention, visible peristaltic waves, and roentgenographic evidence of megacolon or diverticulosis of the colon or of dilatation of the small intestine and stomach.
  • (3) Patients may present with crampy abdominal pain, diarrhea, or cachexia or may present acutely with bowel obstruction or fistula.
  • (4) Typical symptoms include diarrhea, crampy abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, low-grade fever, gas, malaise, and chills.
  • (5) The possibility of tetanus should be considered in any nonimmunized postoperative patient who develops crampy abdominal pain, fever, and abdominal wall rigidity.
  • (6) Patients with symptomatic endometriosis of the colon and distal small bowel usually present with crampy abdominal pain, pelvic and rectal pain, constipation, and dyspareunia.
  • (7) Shortly after ingestion, he developed crampy abdominal pain and generalized muscle weakness.
  • (8) Gastrointestinal involvement may present clinically with fever, intractable diarrhea, and crampy abdominal pain.
  • (9) Infected children may have acute or chronic diarrhea, crampy abdominal pain, anorexia, malasorption and poor weight gain and may be misdiagnosed as celiac disease.
  • (10) The clinical features are nonspecific and can vary from mild crampy abdominal pain to severe shock.
  • (11) The most common clinical picture is crampy abdominal pain and abdominal distention.
  • (12) Features of malabsorption were observed in 12% of cases and 8% presented with acute illness, having explosive, watery, foul smelling diarrhoea along with crampy upper abdominal discomfort.
  • (13) The onset of crampy abdominal pain (median: 3 vs 4 days) and vaginal bleeding (3 vs 3 days) was similar in the RU486 and RU486 + PG groups, respectively.
  • (14) The concept of appendiceal colic was introduced in 1980 to explain the common problem of recurrent crampy abdominal pain (RAP) in children.
  • (15) A 37-yr-old white man experienced crampy abdominal pain beginning 21 days after successful bone marrow transplantation for chronic myelogenous leukemia.
  • (16) Symptoms include crampy abdominal pain, diarrhea, nasopharyngeal ulcers, and rectal ulcers.
  • (17) Crampy abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding started after 275 and 756 minutes respectively.
  • (18) Six of seven patients with small-bowel bezoars had acute small-bowel obstruction, manifested by crampy abdominal pain, vomiting and obstipation.
  • (19) Among the 17 patients who had had symptomatic colonoscopy-documented ulcerative colitis at time of liver transplantation, 88.2% reported improvement in overall ulcerative colitis severity (P less than 0.001), with significant improvement in the frequency of bowel movements reported by 100%, in crampy abdominal pain by 87.5%, in bowel urgency by 75%, in the occurrence of pus or mucus in stool by 87.5%, in the incidence of ulcerative colitis flares by 81.8%, and in the number of days unable to function normally due to ulcerative colitis symptoms by 78.6% (all at least P less than 0.01).
  • (20) A 79-year-old man with a permanent pacemaker presented on five separate occasions to the emergency department with recurrent episodes of crampy abdominal pain.

Crappy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) The abandon of comedy is always there, though, the feeling of, “Fuck it, let’s try that TONIGHT!” because the audience’s expectations are different at a late-night comedy thing and they don’t mind crappy props and people reading scripts, and if it dies there’s always tomorrow.
  • (3) Without trying to sound arrogant, hopefully the awards will be an opportunity to talk to our contemporaries as peers, not just a crappy prison project, and say, 'This is what you can do'."
  • (4) Only these ones didn't have big pictures of Kate and Wills, but focused on things such as their own wages and crappy working conditions .
  • (5) "I decided I didn't want to have a crappy job like that," he says.
  • (6) It's been four long months since the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing thing, and just as we were forgetting just how crappy the internet connections are in Johannestoria, the Mandela story breaks.
  • (7) Suggesting that someone is doing a bad job while also implying that you would do a better job but also refusing to offer to do the job, or even to help, is a pretty crappy stance, and sounds a lot like someone who probably doesn’t have any friends.
  • (8) 8.30pm BST 30 min: Silva wins a free-kick, 30-odd yards from goal … 8.30pm BST 28 min: "How much do you think the high scoring tournament we've had so far has been down to not having a crappy new ball to get used to?"
  • (9) Lots of people invented crappy click-bait sites, and they’ve quickly dropped off the map.
  • (10) In The Wolf Of Wall Street, there's a shot of an honest FBI agent riding the subway home on his crappy government wage, while his day job is chasing down stone-hearted penny-stock cheats who make in a moment what he earns in a decade.
  • (11) One of Savile Row's bespoke tailors told the Times: "If the bespoke businesses were driven out by crappy retail stores selling poor-quality clothes, Savile Row's name would be irreparably damaged."
  • (12) Otherwise they have been characterised as overly sexualised, inherently stupid, hooked to crappy talent shows, computer games, screens, lacking in basic skills, lazy, rude and vain.
  • (13) But will she bother with crappy old England now she's destined for Hollywood?
  • (14) The Philly defenders were out in force, too: daveweigel (@daveweigel) Philadelphia > your crappy city.
  • (15) "She stayed in the same crappy places as the rest of us and mucked in and was fine about basically taking no money so what we had could go on the film.
  • (16) The journey goes something like this: Sit in cold, crappy station with overpriced food until slow train to Peterborough arrives.
  • (17) I don’t think any of them had worked in Poland, so they didn’t qualify.” It’s hardly worth it for the “crappy money” on offer, he said – but by registering they qualified for free healthcare.
  • (18) The visitors will obviously sniff at our crappy past, so we'd better make a show of it – "Ha-ha, these old things?
  • (19) If you have a crappy boss and she's a woman, the conclusion is "I had a crappy female boss, so female bosses are crappy."
  • (20) The problem isn't the fact that some female bosses suck, it's that if you have a crappy boss and he's a man, the conclusion is "I had a crappy boss".

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