trash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
computing
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: trashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
gloss: A container into which things are discarded.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
metonymically
uncountable
gloss: Something worthless or of poor quality.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
gloss: A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Southern
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
gloss: A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
humorous
slang
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan
I am Harry Potter trash.
gloss: Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Drag the unwanted message to the trash.
gloss: To discard.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
gloss: To make into a mess.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: The burglars trashed the house.
gloss: To beat soundly in a game.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.
gloss: To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
pos: verb
examples: to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves
gloss: To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
pos: verb
examples: I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me
Synonyms: garbage (1-3)
junk (1,3)
rubbish
waste
cultch
crap
debris
dreck
drek
garbage
gash
junk
litter
pelf
piece of crap
piece of garbage
piece of shit
pile of crap
pile of shit
piece of trash
roughage
service item
shit
stuff
trash
Related words: waste bin
jerk
inutility
Derived words: Ameritrash
bartrash
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
trashfire
trash fire
trash fish
trash for brains
trash heap of history
trash hose
trash ice
trashification
trashify
trashion
trashless
trashlike
trashline
trash line
trashman
trash mob
trashmover
trashola
trash panda
trashpaper
trashpost
trash pull
trash rack
trashscape
trash sport
trashsport
trash talk
trash-talk
trash talker
trash-talker
trash talking
trash-talking
trash television
trashterpiece
trash truck
trash TV
trashy
treat like trash
white trash
yard trash day
yard-trash day
trash out
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: papirkurv
lang: Finnish
word: roskakori
lang: French
word: corbeille
lang: Galician
word: papeleira
lang: German
word: Papierkorb
lang: Italian
word: cestino
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Poubelle
lang: Portuguese
word: lixeira
lang: Portuguese
word: reciclagem
lang: Russian
word: корзи́на
roman: korzína
lang: Russian
word: му́сорная корзи́на
roman: músornaja korzína
lang: Spanish
word: papelera
lang: Swedish
word: papperskorg
lang: Ukrainian
word: ко́шик
roman: kóšyk