trash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trăsh
ipa: /tɹæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: trashes
Etymology: From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
Senses: examples: text: A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
ref: 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Robert Southey and Porson”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
synonyms: trashcan
trash can
trashbin
trash bin
garbage can
rubbish bin
bin
coordinate_terms: recycle bin
recycling bin
recycling
glosses: A container into which things are discarded.
examples: text: When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
glosses: Something worthless or of poor quality.
examples: (chiefly British)
synonyms: garbage
rubbish
glosses: A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: straw
stover
shaw
glosses: The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: scrap
glosses: Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
glosses: People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
examples: text: Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan
text: I am Harry Potter trash.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
examples: text: Drag the unwanted message to the trash.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: recycle bin
english: in Microsoft Windows
translation: in Microsoft Windows
glosses: Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
Synonyms: word: garbage (1-3)
word: junk (1,3)
sense: Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
word: refuse
word: rubbish
word: waste
sense: container
word: trash can
sense: storage for deleted files
english: in Microsoft Windows
translation: in Microsoft Windows
word: recycle bin
word: cultch
word: crap
word: debris
word: dreck
word: drek
word: garbage
word: junk
word: litter
word: pelf
word: piece of crap
word: piece of garbage
word: piece of shit
word: pile of crap
word: pile of shit
word: piece of trash
word: roughage
word: service item
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: shit
word: stuff
word: trash
Hypernyms: word: artifact
word: remainder
Hyponyms: word: chad
word: feces
word: gash
word: offscouring
word: exuviation
word: exuviae
word: moult
word: moulting
word: debitage
word: detritus
word: goaf
word: gob
word: gobbin
word: hunk of junk
word: mullock
word: piece of junk
word: scobs
word: scoria
word: slag
word: waste product
Derived terms: Ameritrash
betrash
cybertrash
field trash
gendertrash
Hamiltrash
infotrash
Kartrashian
microtrash
oil trash
one man's trash is another man's treasure
pass the trash
piece of trash
poor white trash
take out the trash
talk trash
the trash takes itself out
trailer park trash
trailer trash
trash bag
trash bandit
trashbox
trash boy
trash can
trash chute
trash compactor
trash cymbal
trash day
trash drawer
trashed
trasher
trashery
trash fire
trashfire
trash fish
trash for brains
trash heap of history
trash hose
trash ice
trashification
trashify
trashion
trashless
trashlike
trash line
trashman
trash mob
trashmover
trashola
trash panda
trashpaper
trashpost
trash pull
trash rack
trashscape
trashsport
trash sport
trash-talk
trash talk
trash television
trashterpiece
trash truck
trash TV
trashy
treat like trash
white trash
yard trash day
yard-trash day
Related terms: word: jerk
word: inutility