Example sentences for: crapper

How can you use “crapper” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • , in the chapter on “Bodily Effluvia”) where, for example, john, jakes, bog, crapper are said to “tend to the dysphemistic,” whatever that means.

  • With reference to an analogous matter, I have seen references to a real Mr. Thomas Crapper, who was supposed to have designed our modern day lavatory.

  • He was the subject of a biography entitled (I regret to say), Flushed with Pride . On the wall of my bathroom is a page reproduced from The Contractor's Compendium of 1892 which illustrates and describes three products of Crapper & Co.'s works, situated in Marlborough Road, Chelsea.

  • Crapper & Co., Sanitary Engineers, Marlborough Works, Chelsea.

  • Some people (mistakenly) think that the slang term for a commode was named for Thomas Crapper , English plumber.


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