garbage
Etymology
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Etymology
From late Middle English garbage, from Anglo-Norman -, from Old French garber, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan.
Akin to Old High German garawan, Old English ġearwian. More at garb, yare, gear
Pronunciation Noungarbage (uncountable) (chiefly, US, Canada, Australia)
- Food waste material of any kind.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- This machine translation is garbage
- Something or someone worthless.
- (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
- (sports, slang, North America, attributive) An easy shot.
- French: ordures, déchet, poubelle
- German: Abfall, Müll
- Italian: immondizia, spazzatura, rifiuti
- Portuguese: lixo
- Russian: му́сор
- Spanish: basura, desperdicios
garbage (garbages, present participle garbaging; simple past and past participle garbaged)
- (transitive, chiefly, US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
- 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.
- Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gut
- 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
garbage (not comparable)
- (informal) bad, crap, shitty
- 2009, David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips[http://books.google.caː/books?id=zBHz64KQMdQC&dq=%22garbage+advice%22&q=garbage+advice#v=snippet&q=garbage%20advice&f=false], →ISBN, page 8:
- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
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