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English

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Etymology

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From lateMiddle Englishgarbage(“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), fromAnglo-Norman, fromOld Frenchgarber(“to refine, make neat or clean”), ofGermanic origin, fromFrankish*garwijan(“to make ready”).

Akin toOld High Germangarawan(“to prepare, make ready”),Old Englishġearwian(“to make ready, adorn”). More atgarb,yare,gear

Pronunciation

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Noun

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garbage (uncountable)(chiefly US, Canada, Australia)

  1. Food waste material of any kind.
  2. (England, dialectal, Cumbria, Lancashire, archaic) foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
  3. Useless ordisposable material;waste material of any kind.
    Thegarbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
  4. A place or receptacle for waste material.
    He threw the newspaper into thegarbage.
  5. Nonsense;gibberish.
    This machine translation isgarbage
  6. Something or someoneworthless.
    • 1966,Owen Chadwick,The Victorian Church, volume 1,page103:
      The dissentingChristian Advocate asked (5 January 1835) how a cabinet composed of the verygarbage of Toryism could be expected to share the spirit of Peel’s manifesto.
  7. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh;offal.
  8. (sports, slang, Canada,US, attributive) Aneasyshot.
    • 1962,Coach & Athlete, page18:
      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.
    • 1981,Update 1981: The Great Contemporary Issues, New York Times Company, page78:
      […] 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."
  9. (computing)Allocatedmemory which isno longerin use but hasnot yet beendeallocated.
  10. (computing)Data that aremisinterpreted asanotherkind of data.

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Translations

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waste material
nonsense
someone or something worthless

Verb

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garbage (third-person singular simple presentgarbages,present participlegarbaging,simple past and past participlegarbaged)

  1. (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) toeviscerate
    • 1674,John Josselyn,Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted inWilliam Butts Mershon,The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
      I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled andgarbidged for three pence.
    Synonyms:disembowel,eviscerate,gut

Adjective

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garbage (notcomparable)

  1. (informal)bad,crap,shitty
    • 2009, David R. Portney,129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips‎[1],→ISBN, page 8:
      Forget about thatgarbage advice to “act natural”.
    • 2010, Nicholas Rombes,A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982:
      half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totallygarbage
    • 2011, Ezekiel Dayo Adetunji,Power in the Spoken Word!, page110:
      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 completelygarbage, and you can do but nothing with it more than having a sexual life with one another.
    • 2021, Giselle Renarde,Play It On My Radio: A Diary In Music, page309:
      The last time I had access to a therapist was 20 years ago, and that was a prettygarbage experience.

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From a derivative ofOld Frenchgarber.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡarˈbaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

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garbage (pluralgarbagys)(Late Middle English)

  1. birddung
  2. entrails,offal

Descendants

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