garbage
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bɪdʒ noun
1.
discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
2.
any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.
3.
anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile: There's nothing but garbage on TV tonight.
4.
worthless talk; lies; foolishness.
5.
Slang. any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish: I'll have an Old Fashioned, but without the garbage.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English: discarded parts of butchered fowls; compared with garbelage the removal of waste from spices (< Anglo-French, Old French; see garble, -age) or Old French garbage tax on sheaves of grain, though shift of sense, and form in first case, is unclear
1400–50; late Middle English: discarded parts of butchered fowls; compared with garbelage the removal of waste from spices (< Anglo-French, Old French; see garble, -age) or Old French garbage tax on sheaves of grain, though shift of sense, and form in first case, is unclear
Synonyms
2. litter, refuse, junk, rubbish.
2. litter, refuse, junk, rubbish.
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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | worthless, useless, or unwanted matter |
| 2. | Also called: rubbish discarded or waste matter; refuse |
| 3. | computing invalid data |
| 4. | informal nonsense |
| [C15: probably from Anglo-French garbelage removal of discarded matter, of uncertain origin; compare Old Italian garbuglio confusion] | |
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Word Origin & History
garbage
1422, originally "giblets of a fowl, waste parts of an animal," later confused with garble in its sense of "siftings, refuse." Many M.E. cookery terms came from Anglo-Fr., so perhaps it is related to O.Fr. jarbage "a bundle of sheaves, entrails," from P.Gmc. *garba-, from PIE *ghrebh- "a handful, a grasp."
Sense of "refuse" is first attested 1583. Garbology "study of waste as a social science" is from 1976.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
garbage definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
Even in the neighborhood where people pick up litter every day, they still have to pay someone to haul off the garbage.
He had gone there to lend support to striking city garbage workers.
Who created a lot of garbage by poor secretaries told to learn how to make so many things that they never wanted to do before.
Vultures play an essential ecological role as garbage collectors and recyclers.
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