garbage
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear
Inflected forms:
form: garbidge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
pronunciation-spelling
form: garbidge
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: Food waste material of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
uncountable
gloss: Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Cumbria
England
US
archaic
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
uncountable
examples: The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
gloss: Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
uncountable
examples: Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.
Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.
gloss: A place or receptacle for waste material.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
uncountable
examples: He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
gloss: Nonsense; gibberish.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
uncountable
examples: This machine translation is garbage.
gloss: Something or someone worthless.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
uncountable
examples: The dissenting Christian Advocate asked (5 January 1835) how a cabinet composed of the very garbage of Toryism could be expected to share the spirit of Peel’s manifesto.
gloss: The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An easy shot.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
attributive
slang
uncountable
examples: Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.
[…] the aging pro, in a much-heralded "boys against the girls" tennis match, annihilated Margaret Court with an array of "garbage shots and cotton balls."
gloss: Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
uncountable
gloss: Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
uncountable
gloss: bad, crap, shitty
pos: adj
tags: Australia
Canada
US
informal
not-comparable
examples: Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage
If you have been with a man for more than five years and both of you have not planned to marry one another, the relationship is completely garbage, and you can do but nothing with it more than having a sexual life with one another.
The last time I had access to a therapist was 20 years ago, and that was a pretty garbage experience.
Related words: hot garbage
Derived words: carbage
garbage bag
garbage bandit
garbage bin
garbage can
garbage chute
garbage collect
garbage collected
garbage collection
garbage collector
garbage-collector
garbage day
garbage disposal
garbage disposal unit
garbage dump
garbage fire
garbage fly
garbage gleaning
Garbage Grove
garbage heap of history
garbage in, garbage out
garbage lady
garbageless
garbagelike
garbageman
garbage man
garbage mitt
garbageness
garbage pail
garbage panda
garbage patch
garbageperson
garbage picking
garbage plate
garbager
garbagescape
garbage scow
garbage time
garbage truck
garbageware
garbage woman
garbagewoman
garbagey
garbo
garbologist
garbology
gubbish
piece of garbage
snarge
treat like garbage
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