garbagen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈɡɑrbɪdʒ/

Forms: late Middle English gabage, late Middle English– garbage, 1500s garbedge, 1500s garbishe, 1500s garvage, 1500s–1600s garbadg, 1500s–1600s garbadge, 1500s–1600s garbege, 1500s–1700s garbidge, 1500s–1700s (1800s English regional) garbish, 1600s garbash, 1800s– gyarbage (U.S. regional (southern) and Caribbean); English regional 1800s garbrish, 1800s gurbage; Welsh English 1800s– garbetch (Pembrokeshire); Irish English (northern) 1900s– garbotch, 1900s– gorbidge, 1900s– gorbitch.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed. Perhaps < an unattested Anglo-Norman *garbage offal, implied by the apparent derivative garbagere (1318: see garbager n. and discussion at that entry), if that is not itself a borrowing from English. Earlier currency of a vernacular noun (either Anglo-Norman or English) is implied by post-classical Latin gerbagium entrails of poultry (1340, 1344 in British sources). The further etymology is likewise uncertain and disputed; a connection (in English or Anglo-Norman) with garble v. and related words is tempting, but only if loss of the second syllable of the stem of that verb is assumed (perhaps resulting from reanalysis, in English, as showing -le suffix 3) as well as semantic development from denoting the action of sifting to denoting things that are removed by extraction or sorting (typically in contexts much coarser than those referred to by garble v. and related words).Specific forms. In form garbrish with epenthetic r . Specific senses. With sense A. 2 compare Middle French, French (now regional) gerbée, in the same sense (1432).

A. n.

†1. The offal or offcuts of an animal used for food, esp. the entrails; a piece of offal. †Also more generally: entrails, guts. Obsolete.Cf. to not be fit to carry guts (also † garbage, † offal), to a bear at bear n.¹ Phrases 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [noun] > entrails

garbage1422

issue1440

mugget1481

chawdron1578

inmeat1616

usha1900

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe

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tripea1400

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draught?a1475

mugget1481

paunch1512

purtenance1530

pertinence1535

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gut?1602

pluck1611

sheep's-pluck1611

fifth quarter1679

trail1764

fry1847

chitling1869

small goods1874

black tripe1937

variety meat1942

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun]

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ropeeOE

wombeOE

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manifold?c1400

gutc1460

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colon1622

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pud1706

intestinule1836

1422 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 127 (MED) Item we endite all þe Cokes of Bredstret for kepyng of her dung and garbage vnder her stalles.

?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 433 (MED) Take garbage of capons, and of hennes, and of chekyns, and of dowes, and make hom clene, and sethe hem, and cut hom smal..and dresse hit in platers.

a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 9 Take fayre garbagys of chykonys, as þe hed, þe fete, þe lyuerys, an þe gysowrys.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 990 To pulle out the garbishe or gutts of a thing,..to bowell.

1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 54 Rotten in thy maw, thy guts and garbage!

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 134 Augury, That out of Garbages of Cattle, Presag'd th' events of Truce, or Battle.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 86 In New-found-land they improve their Ground with the Garbish of Fish.

1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. xix. 367 The carrion vulture..disputing with the brutes the garbage.

†2. Straw or other coarse plant material, sometimes including grain, used as feed for animals, esp. horses. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for horses

horsemeat1404

horse-bread1467

horse-loafc1468

bayard's bunc1520

garbage1526

bait1570

rack-meat1607

greaves1614

ray1656

gram1702

oat hay1843

oaten hay1891

1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 206 All such horses..to be substantially served according to their allowance..in Hay, Garbage, and Litter.

1699 Ld. Belhaven Countrey-mans Rudim. 25 Time was taken up in gathering Thistles and other Garbadge for their horses to feed upon in their Stables.

1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer: 2nd Pt. 26 The Multiplication of it [sc. Hog-Dung] ought to be endeavour'd by all who keep Hogs, which may be done, if Straw, Roots, Garbidge, Weeds, &c, are timely supply'd to them.

3. Waste material, refuse, litter; filth; trash, rubbish, esp. food or household waste.Now rare in British, Irish, and New Zealand English.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]

wrakea1350

outcastingc1350

rammel1370

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mullockc1390

refusec1390

filtha1398

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chaff?a1400

rubbishc1400

wastec1430

drossc1440

raff?1440

rascal1440

murgeonc1450

wrack1472

gear1489

garblec1503

scowl1538

raffle1543

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garbage1549

peltry1550

gubbins?1553

lastage1553

scruff1559

retraict1575

ross1577

riddings1584

ket1586

scouring1588

pelf1589

offal1598

rummage1598

dog's meat1606

retriment1615

spitling1620

recrement1622

mundungus1637

sordes1640

muskings1649

rejectament1654

offscouring1655

brat1656

relicts1687

offage1727

litter1730

rejectamenta1795

outwale1825

detritus1834

junk1836

wastements1843

croke1847–78

sculch1847

debris1851

rumble1854

flotsam1861

jetsam1861

pelt1880

offcasting1893

rubbishry1894

littering1897

muckings1898

wastage1898

dreck1905

bruck1929

crap1934

garbo1953

clobber1965

dooky1965

grot1971

tippings-

1549 J. Proctor Fal of Late Arrian sig. E.iii^v Tho it please you to compare them to suche vnclene refuse or garbage, to fylthy gutters and synkes (whiche is no slaunder in your mouth,) yet be not you of mynde to beleue that youre selfe is sweete and sauery.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 240 This fountaine was said to grow thicke, and sauour of garbidge, at such time as they celebrated the Olympiads.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 88 They [sc. the Chinese] are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard.

1887 Spectator 9 July 621/1 The river was the receptacle of the garbage and sewage of these domiciles.

1984 Times of India 8 Jan. 6/6 Drains which had been clogged with garbage for years were flushed out with salt water.

2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 231 Somebody has to clean the restaurant after service, take out the garbage, clean and scrub the insides of the ovens.

a. Something that is considered worthless, unimportant, incorrect, or of very poor quality; trash, rubbish; nonsense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless

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fly's wing1377

goose-wing1377

fartc1390

chaff?a1400

nutshella1400

shalec1400

yardc1400

wrack1472

pelfrya1529

trasha1529

dreg1531

trish-trash1542

alchemy1547

beggary?1548

rubbish1548

pelfa1555

chip1556

stark naught1562

paltry?1566

rubbish1566

riff-raff1570

bran1574

baggage1579

nihil1579

trush-trash1582

stubblea1591

tartar1590

garbage1592

bag of winda1599

a cracked or slit groat1600

kitchen stuff1600

tilta1603

nothing?1608

bauble1609

countera1616

a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620

buttermilk1630

dross1632

paltrement1641

cattle1643

bagatelle1647

nothingness1652

brimborion1653

stuff1670

flap-dragon1700

mud1706

caput mortuuma1711

snuff1778

twaddle1786

powder-post1790

traffic1828

junk1836

duffer1852

shice1859

punk1869

hogwash1870

cagmag1875

shit1890

tosh1892

tripe1895

dreck1905

schlock1906

cannon fodder1917

shite1928

skunk1929

crut1937

chickenshit1938

crud1943

Mickey Mouse1958

gick1959

garbo1978

turd1978

pants1994

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. L2^v Let not your shops bee infected with any such..stinking garbadge.

1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. A4 Almes-basket-scraps, the very fall & garbidge of gentry.

1759 J. Grainger tr. Sulpicia Poems ix. 6 Rare Taste, and worthy of a Poet's Brain, To prey on Garbage.

1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) xxii. 194 She flew with voracious appetite to sate herself on the garbage of any circulating library.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vi. 124 Any garbage is food for a woman's vanity.

1940 Harper's Mag. June 448/2 There could be no stronger evidence of the vigor of Americans than the fact that by the hundred thousand they eat this garbage and survive.

2018 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News (Nexis) 12 Apr. a4 Intelligent people on the left constantly spout the same ignorant garbage.

b. Originally, with of (as in garbage of the world, garbage of humanity, etc.): the most despised or contemptible group of people in a society; cf. scum n. 3a, refuse n.¹ 1b. Now usually: a person or group of people regarded as worthless or inferior; cf. trash n.¹ 4.Used as a mass noun, even when referring to an individual (e.g. in he is garbage). Some predicative uses could instead be interpreted as adjectival; cf. sense B.In quot. 1648 as part of an extended metaphor.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless > collectively

garbage1648

trash1750

worthless1758

no class1897

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > persons of the lowest class (collectively)

chenaille1340

offal?a1425

putaylea1425

ribaldail1489

abject1526

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dreg1531

outsweeping1535

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ribaldry1550

raff1557

sink1574

cattle1579

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rabble1579

baggagery1589

scum1590

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menialty1593

baggage1603

froth1603

refuse1603

tag-rag1609

retriment1615

trasha1616

recrement1622

silts1636

garbage1648

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raffle1670

riff-raff1678

scurf1688

mob1693

scouring1721

ribble-rabble1771

sweeping1799

clamjamphrie1816

ragabash1823

scruff1836

residuum1851

talent1882

1648 Foure Ages Eng. xvii. 23 Men, like their Grandsires tombs, titled without, And full of rottennesse within, or nought: The Garbage of the world, compos'd of mire And slime.

1681 R. Alleine Instr. Heart-work 212 Those Sons of Debauchery that are the filth and garbage of the World.

1749 Active Testimony True Presbyterians Scotl. 31 Men void of Truth or Honesty, being the very Scum and Garbage of Scotland.

1832 Day (Glasgow) 18 Jan. 58/1 Backbiters and sicklike garbage of humanity, I hold in great detestation.

1930 W. Rand et al. Growth & Devel. Young Child ii. 75 Bob A. is a pale, wiry child of five... He has streaks of ‘showing off’ during which he rushes about madly, talks loudly, and sets up cries of ‘Dumbell’ [sic] and ‘You're garbage.’

1956 R. Marsh Hill Top House viii. 113 You know what men are, honey? They're garbage.

2008 P. Yee Learning to Fly 61 Other kids turn to look, puzzled that she is talking to garbage like me.

†5. Refuse, such as husks, dust, or soil, that is separated out from a commodity; = garble n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything

dreg1531

tail1542

excrement1576

lee1593

garbage1598

recrement1599

tap-lash1623

ground1629

gross1708

tailings1889

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. lxv. 113/2 The Cloues..whensoeuer them are made cleane, and seperated from their Garbish.

6. Computing.

a. Incorrect input or output.Chiefly in garbage in, garbage out (abbreviated GIGO n.), used to express the idea incorrect or poor-quality input will produce faulty output.

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society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > [noun] > garbage

garbage1957

society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > [noun] > garbage > garbage in, garbage out

garbage in, garbage out1957

GIGO1964

1957 Traffic Q. (U.S.) 11 411 When the basic data to be used by a computer are of questionable accuracy or validity, our personnel have an unusual expression—GIGO—to characterize such information and the answers the computer produces. It simply means ‘garbage in—garbage out’. It emphasizes that the results are no better than the data given to the computer.

1985 Computerworld 28 Jan. sr 10/4 The integrated software requires that users enter data correctly..because if they enter garbage, the data base spreads that garbage to data files throughout the company.

2007 W. H. Kersting Distribution Syst. Modelling & Anal. (ed. 2) Pref. i. So what is the problem? Garbage in, garbage out is the answer.

b. Stored data that is redundant or meaningless, esp. that which cannot or will not be accessed by the computer system or program running on the system.Recorded earliest in garbage collector (garbage collector n. 2).

ΚΠ

1960 D. J. Edwards LISP II Garbage Collector (MIT Artificial Intelligence Project, Memo No. 19) 1 The present LISP free storage control program, the garbage collector, has a severe limitation.

1966 P. M. Woodward in L. Fox Adv. Programming & Non-numerical Computation ii. 48 Garbage may be defined as all p-words which cannot be reached by following the chains of pointers from active list variables.

2008 R. Sinn Software Security Technol. v. 167 Any objects without a reference are then considered garbage.

B. adj.

Worthless; useless. In later use colloquial: very bad; terrible; rubbish. Quot. 1817 could alternatively be interpreted as showing the noun, with counterfeit adj. as postmodifier.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless

naughteOE

unworthc960

nought worthOE

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vaina1300

lewd1362

base?1510

to be nothing toc1520

stark naught1528

nothing worth1535

worthilessa1542

draffish1543

baggage1548

dunghill?1555

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toyish1572

worthless1573

out (forth) of door (also doors)1574

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riff-raff1577

drafty1582

fecklessc1586

dudgeon?1589

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wanwordy?a1595

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priceless1614

unvaluable1615

valuelessa1616

waste1616

trashya1620

draffy1624

stramineous1624

invaluable1640

roly-poly?1645

nugatorious1646

perquisquilian1647

niffling1649

lazy1671

wanworth1724

little wortha1754

flimsy1756

waff1788

null1790

nothingy1801

nothingly1802

twopenny-halfpenny1809

not worth a flaw1810

garbage1817

peanut1836

duffing1839

trash1843

no-account1845

no-count1851

punky1859

rummagy1872

junky1880

skilligalee1883

footle1894

punk1896

wherry-go-nimble1901

junk1908

rinky-dink1913

schlock1916

tripe1927

duff1938

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

expendable1942

(strictly) for the birds1943

tripey1955

schlocky1960

naff1964

dipshit1968

cack1978

1817 J. Hogg Sir Anthony Moore ii. i, in Dramatic Tales I. 176 If thou presumest to vend More of such garbage counterfeit, I'll pay it In coin thou hast not palm'd.

1896 Sun (N.Y.) 4 Feb. 6/5 The garbage talk of Mr. Tillman should not make the country forgetful of the jets of honeyed and perfumed speech spurted by the Hon. William F. Vilas.

1956 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 6 Dec. 1/1 The British Press Council..was formed to raise the standard of news reporting, by eliminating the garbage stuff such as crime, sex and prying into the private lives of individuals.

2006 New Yorker 10 July 79/3 You get twelve goober lines as a truck driver for garbage money.

2018 USA Today (Nexis) 13 Dec. 4 d The movie is completely garbage.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier (in sense A. 3), as in garbage bag, garbage bin, garbage dump, etc.; also with agent nouns, forming compounds in which garbage expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in garbage inspector.Now rare in British, Irish, and New Zealand English.

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1861 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Aug. 3/1 This garbage heap, although so near the houses, can only be reached by a roundabout route.

1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 175 The garbage-boxes or ash-barrels..are still the same unsightly..nuisances.

1896 Daily News 3 June 4/1 The responsible, if not dignified post, of garbage inspector.

1937 D. Marlowe Coming, Sir! ii. 46 I struggled with the heavy garbage bins.

1969 ETC. June 217 Dug up from the garbage dump, it seems to be a letter from Boston, telling of various family matters.

2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 (2009) iii. 236 Outside he tossed the garbage bag into an overflowing Dumpster.

C2.

garbage disposal n. originally and chiefly North American (more fully garbage disposal unit) a bladed, electric device installed beneath a sink which grinds or shreds food waste into small pieces that can pass through the plumbing.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > apparatus for refuse disposal

refuse destructor1880

refuse consumer1885

garbage disposal1928

wastemaster1946

garburator1947

disposal1953

waste-disposer1962

waste disposal unit1967

1928 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 13 May (Final ed.) (Second News section) 4/5 Twin apartments, with built-in baths and electric refrigeration, garbage disposal units, one with two and the other with three bedrooms are on the upper floor.

1958 Times 13 Jan. 11/2 There is a garbage disposal unit for attachment to the sink which will eliminate all food waste such as small bones, vegetable scraps and peelings, fibrous material.

1975 Chicago Defender 6 Nov. 23/1 This excluded waste disposed of by other means such as fed into the garbage disposal.

2015 M2 FinancialWire (Nexis) 21 Oct. One of the many reasons a garbage disposal gives out could be something blocking the blades from turning and grinding.

garbage disposer n. chiefly North American a bladed, electric device installed beneath a sink which grinds or shreds food waste into small pieces that can pass through the plumbing.

ΚΠ

1937 Hondo (Texas) Anvil Herald 23 July Electric garbage disposers and electric mixers; electric toasters..—these and other electric appliances put power at the disposal of the housewife.

2018 Daily Gleaner (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 19 Jan. a8 We wanted to have a prep sink in the island with a garbage disposer.

garbage fish n. chiefly North American fish of inferior quality, esp. a type of fish considered less desirable as a food or commercial product; cf. junk fish n. at junk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2. Recorded earliest as a modifier.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > unsound or inferior fish

thoke1482

rough fish1816

garbage fish1841

offal1859

shack1904

junk fish1930

1841 Cambr. Independent Press 6 Mar. Sir Peckham Micklethwait communicated his own results in the use of garbage fish oil and bone-dust on his farm.

1887 Rep. in Jrnl. Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. No. 19 6 Dyak Jemain borrowed my casting-net and caught a lot of fine fish, but Pangeran Sahbudin informed me that the large ones were garbage fish; in spite of this the men seemed to appreciate the rare treat of fresh fish.

2009 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 28 Aug. Until just a few decades ago the Japanese considered tuna a garbage fish.

garbage man n. chiefly North American a person (esp. a man) employed to collect garbage, esp. household waste, for disposal.

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1855 Rep. Commissioner Health in Ordinances of Mayor & City Council of Baltimore App. 77 Seldom are domestic arrangements made for the day, without including in the catalogue the visit of the garbage man.

1857 N.Y. Daily Times 16 June 8/3 Great was the astonishment of the garbage men when they ascertained, but too late, that they had dumped a barrel full of eggs, fresh from the market, into their cart.

1897 Robesonian (Lumberton, N. Carolina) 4 Aug. 7/3 I'll tell you a secret. I used to be a garbage man.

2005 West Austral. (Perth) 22 Dec. 13/3 Since people began putting bins out on the verge themselves and collecting the garbage became more mechanised, fewer people gave something to their local garbage man over Christmas.

garbage mouth n. U.S. colloquial (a nickname for) a foul-mouthed person; (also) a tendency to be foul-mouthed; cf. potty mouth n. at potty n. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1955 Richmond Collegian (Univ. of Richmond, Va.) 15 Apr. 2/2 And SAE Bob (Garbage mouth) Trimble is spending a lot of time lately in Carolina.

1969 Colorado Springs Gaz.-Tel. 6 Mar. 6 a/6 When she drank to excess, Clark told the jury, she became ‘so outspoken’ that ‘the bowling crowd called her garbage mouth’.

1994 Amer. Spectator Jan. 24/2 She has a garbage mouth on her, and she was calling him motherf——er, c——sucker, and everything else.

2018 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz.-Mail (Nexis) 2 May 3 a He's the biggest garbage mouth in Washington.

garbage-mouthed adj. U.S. colloquial characterized by the use of bad language; given to using coarse, obscene, or abusive language, foul-mouthed; cf. potty-mouthed adj. at potty n. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1969 Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 26 Feb. I know the officers..have to put up with an unbearable amount of garbage-mouthed verbal abuse from some students.

2018 @LightworkerNow 26 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Apr. 2019) They continue having garbage mouthed guests on their entertainment show.

garbage time n. North American Sport (originally Basketball) colloquial a period of time towards the end of a game in which one team has such a substantial lead that the outcome is no longer in doubt.During this time coaches often replace their best players with substitutes, and scoring is typically easier due to reduced focus on defensive play.

ΚΠ

1960 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 16 Feb. ii. a11/2 A lot of players like to stay in during ‘garbage time’. That's when one team has a big lead in the game and the defense loosen up.

2019 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 Oct. Penn's offense struggled immensely against Dartmouth's stout defensive unit as it only mustered 13 points, with eight of them coming in garbage time.

garbage tin n. originally and chiefly Australian a container, typically made from metal, for household garbage; a rubbish bin.

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1898 Mt. Lyell Standard & Strahan Gaz. (Queenstown, Tasmania) 9 Apr. The garbage tin was found in a very fœtid state.

1941 B. Miller Farewell Leicester Square (2000) iii. 64 He swung the wheel over, turning the car abruptly into a side-street,..with a policeman sauntering idly past back doors and garbage tins.

2016 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Nov. 71 It must be pretty well nigh on 30 years since the ubiquitous wheelie began displacing the battered and smelly garbage tin on Brisbane streets.

garbage truck n. chiefly North American a large vehicle used to collect garbage for disposal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > refuse truck or cart

pudding-cart1562

dust-cart1776

refuse cart1845

garbage truck1874

sanitation truck1958

1874 Boston Daily Globe 29 May 5/1 Let us establish decent driveways, where pleasure-seekers can breathe clean air without being jostled by offal wagons, garbage trucks and other public nuisances.

2017 W. Wang Chem. 10 Thursday, trash day. We pick the wrong streets to go down and drive for miles behind a garbage truck.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	garbage
释义	garbagen.adj. Brit. /ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrbɪdʒ/ Forms: late Middle English gabage, late Middle English– garbage, 1500s garbedge, 1500s garbishe, 1500s garvage, 1500s–1600s garbadg, 1500s–1600s garbadge, 1500s–1600s garbege, 1500s–1700s garbidge, 1500s–1700s (1800s English regional) garbish, 1600s garbash, 1800s– gyarbage (U.S. regional (southern) and Caribbean); English regional 1800s garbrish, 1800s gurbage; Welsh English 1800s– garbetch (Pembrokeshire); Irish English (northern) 1900s– garbotch, 1900s– gorbidge, 1900s– gorbitch. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed. Perhaps < an unattested Anglo-Norman garbage offal, implied by the apparent derivative garbagere* (1318: see garbager n. and discussion at that entry), if that is not itself a borrowing from English. Earlier currency of a vernacular noun (either Anglo-Norman or English) is implied by post-classical Latin gerbagium entrails of poultry (1340, 1344 in British sources). The further etymology is likewise uncertain and disputed; a connection (in English or Anglo-Norman) with garble v. and related words is tempting, but only if loss of the second syllable of the stem of that verb is assumed (perhaps resulting from reanalysis, in English, as showing -le suffix 3) as well as semantic development from denoting the action of sifting to denoting things that are removed by extraction or sorting (typically in contexts much coarser than those referred to by garble v. and related words).Specific forms. In form garbrish with epenthetic r . Specific senses. With sense A. 2 compare Middle French, French (now regional) gerbée, in the same sense (1432). A. n. †1. The offal or offcuts of an animal used for food, esp. the entrails; a piece of offal. †Also more generally: entrails, guts. Obsolete.Cf. to not be fit to carry guts (also † garbage, † offal), to a bear at bear n.¹ Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [noun] > entrails garbage1422 issue1440 mugget1481 chawdron1578 inmeat1616 usha1900 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe tripea1300 numblesc1330 tripea1400 chitterling?c1400 giblet14.. hasletc1400 umbles14.. womb cloutc1400 garbage1422 offala1425 interlardc1440 hinge1469 draught?a1475 mugget1481 paunch1512 purtenance1530 pertinence1535 chawdron1578 menudes1585 humblesa1592 gut?1602 pluck1611 sheep's-pluck1611 fifth quarter1679 trail1764 fry1847 chitling1869 small goods1874 black tripe1937 variety meat1942 the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] tharma700 ropeeOE wombeOE entrailc1330 arse-ropesa1382 entraila1382 bowel1393 bellyc1400 manifold?c1400 gutc1460 tripe?a1505 trillibub1519 puddingsa1525 singles1567 fibre1598 intestine1598 gutlet1615 colon1622 garbage1638 pud1706 intestinule1836 1422 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 127 (MED) Item we endite all þe Cokes of Bredstret for kepyng of her dung and garbage vnder her stalles. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 433 (MED) Take garbage of capons, and of hennes, and of chekyns, and of dowes, and make hom clene, and sethe hem, and cut hom smal..and dresse hit in platers. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 9 Take fayre garbagys of chykonys, as þe hed, þe fete, þe lyuerys, an þe gysowrys. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 990 To pulle out the garbishe or gutts of a thing,..to bowell. 1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 54 Rotten in thy maw, thy guts and garbage! 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 134 Augury, That out of Garbages of Cattle, Presag'd th' events of Truce, or Battle. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 86 In New-found-land they improve their Ground with the Garbish of Fish. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. xix. 367 The carrion vulture..disputing with the brutes the garbage. †2. Straw or other coarse plant material, sometimes including grain, used as feed for animals, esp. horses. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for horses horsemeat1404 horse-bread1467 horse-loafc1468 bayard's bunc1520 garbage1526 bait1570 rack-meat1607 greaves1614 ray1656 gram1702 oat hay1843 oaten hay1891 1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 206 All such horses..to be substantially served according to their allowance..in Hay, Garbage, and Litter. 1699 Ld. Belhaven Countrey-mans Rudim. 25 Time was taken up in gathering Thistles and other Garbadge for their horses to feed upon in their Stables. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer: 2nd Pt. 26 The Multiplication of it [sc. Hog-Dung] ought to be endeavour'd by all who keep Hogs, which may be done, if Straw, Roots, Garbidge, Weeds, &c, are timely supply'd to them. 3. Waste material, refuse, litter; filth; trash, rubbish, esp. food or household waste.Now rare in British, Irish, and New Zealand English. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] wrakea1350 outcastingc1350 rammel1370 rubble1376 mullockc1390 refusec1390 filtha1398 outcasta1398 chaff?a1400 rubbishc1400 wastec1430 drossc1440 raff?1440 rascal1440 murgeonc1450 wrack1472 gear1489 garblec1503 scowl1538 raffle1543 baggage1549 garbage1549 peltry1550 gubbins?1553 lastage1553 scruff1559 retraict1575 ross1577 riddings1584 ket1586 scouring1588 pelf1589 offal1598 rummage1598 dog's meat1606 retriment1615 spitling1620 recrement1622 mundungus1637 sordes1640 muskings1649 rejectament1654 offscouring1655 brat1656 relicts1687 offage1727 litter1730 rejectamenta1795 outwale1825 detritus1834 junk1836 wastements1843 croke1847–78 sculch1847 debris1851 rumble1854 flotsam1861 jetsam1861 pelt1880 offcasting1893 rubbishry1894 littering1897 muckings1898 wastage1898 dreck1905 bruck1929 crap1934 garbo1953 clobber1965 dooky1965 grot1971 tippings- 1549 J. Proctor Fal of Late Arrian sig. E.iii^v Tho it please you to compare them to suche vnclene refuse or garbage, to fylthy gutters and synkes (whiche is no slaunder in your mouth,) yet be not you of mynde to beleue that youre selfe is sweete and sauery. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 240 This fountaine was said to grow thicke, and sauour of garbidge, at such time as they celebrated the Olympiads. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 88 They [sc. the Chinese] are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard. View more context for this quotation 1887 Spectator 9 July 621/1 The river was the receptacle of the garbage and sewage of these domiciles. 1984 Times of India 8 Jan. 6/6 Drains which had been clogged with garbage for years were flushed out with salt water. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 231 Somebody has to clean the restaurant after service, take out the garbage, clean and scrub the insides of the ovens. 4. a. Something that is considered worthless, unimportant, incorrect, or of very poor quality; trash, rubbish; nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless hawc1000 turdc1275 fille1297 dusta1300 lead1303 skitc1330 naught1340 vanityc1340 wrakea1350 rushc1350 dirt1357 fly's wing1377 goose-wing1377 fartc1390 chaff?a1400 nutshella1400 shalec1400 yardc1400 wrack1472 pelfrya1529 trasha1529 dreg1531 trish-trash1542 alchemy1547 beggary?1548 rubbish1548 pelfa1555 chip1556 stark naught1562 paltry?1566 rubbish1566 riff-raff1570 bran1574 baggage1579 nihil1579 trush-trash1582 stubblea1591 tartar1590 garbage1592 bag of winda1599 a cracked or slit groat1600 kitchen stuff1600 tilta1603 nothing?1608 bauble1609 countera1616 a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620 buttermilk1630 dross1632 paltrement1641 cattle1643 bagatelle1647 nothingness1652 brimborion1653 stuff1670 flap-dragon1700 mud1706 caput mortuuma1711 snuff1778 twaddle1786 powder-post1790 traffic1828 junk1836 duffer1852 shice1859 punk1869 hogwash1870 cagmag1875 shit1890 tosh1892 tripe1895 dreck1905 schlock1906 cannon fodder1917 shite1928 skunk1929 crut1937 chickenshit1938 crud1943 Mickey Mouse1958 gick1959 garbo1978 turd1978 pants1994 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. L2^v Let not your shops bee infected with any such..stinking garbadge. 1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. A4 Almes-basket-scraps, the very fall & garbidge of gentry. 1759 J. Grainger tr. Sulpicia Poems ix. 6 Rare Taste, and worthy of a Poet's Brain, To prey on Garbage. 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) xxii. 194 She flew with voracious appetite to sate herself on the garbage of any circulating library. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vi. 124 Any garbage is food for a woman's vanity. 1940 Harper's Mag. June 448/2 There could be no stronger evidence of the vigor of Americans than the fact that by the hundred thousand they eat this garbage and survive. 2018 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News (Nexis) 12 Apr. a4 Intelligent people on the left constantly spout the same ignorant garbage. b. Originally, with of (as in garbage of the world, garbage of humanity, etc.): the most despised or contemptible group of people in a society; cf. scum n. 3a, refuse n.¹ 1b. Now usually: a person or group of people regarded as worthless or inferior; cf. trash n.¹ 4.Used as a mass noun, even when referring to an individual (e.g. in he is garbage). Some predicative uses could instead be interpreted as adjectival; cf. sense B.In quot. 1648 as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless > collectively garbage1648 trash1750 worthless1758 no class1897 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > persons of the lowest class (collectively) chenaille1340 offal?a1425 putaylea1425 ribaldail1489 abject1526 offscouring1526 dreg1531 outsweeping1535 braggery1548 ribaldry1550 raff1557 sink1574 cattle1579 offscum1579 rabble1579 baggagery1589 scum1590 waste1592 menialty1593 baggage1603 froth1603 refuse1603 tag-rag1609 retriment1615 trasha1616 recrement1622 silts1636 garbage1648 riffle-raffle1668 raffle1670 riff-raff1678 scurf1688 mob1693 scouring1721 ribble-rabble1771 sweeping1799 clamjamphrie1816 ragabash1823 scruff1836 residuum1851 talent1882 1648 Foure Ages Eng. xvii. 23 Men, like their Grandsires tombs, titled without, And full of rottennesse within, or nought: The Garbage of the world, compos'd of mire And slime. 1681 R. Alleine Instr. Heart-work 212 Those Sons of Debauchery that are the filth and garbage of the World. 1749 Active Testimony True Presbyterians Scotl. 31 Men void of Truth or Honesty, being the very Scum and Garbage of Scotland. 1832 Day (Glasgow) 18 Jan. 58/1 Backbiters and sicklike garbage of humanity, I hold in great detestation. 1930 W. Rand et al. Growth & Devel. Young Child ii. 75 Bob A. is a pale, wiry child of five... He has streaks of ‘showing off’ during which he rushes about madly, talks loudly, and sets up cries of ‘Dumbell’ [sic] and ‘You're garbage.’ 1956 R. Marsh Hill Top House viii. 113 You know what men are, honey? They're garbage. 2008 P. Yee Learning to Fly 61 Other kids turn to look, puzzled that she is talking to garbage like me. †5. Refuse, such as husks, dust, or soil, that is separated out from a commodity; = garble n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything dreg1531 tail1542 excrement1576 lee1593 garbage1598 recrement1599 tap-lash1623 ground1629 gross1708 tailings1889 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. lxv. 113/2 The Cloues..whensoeuer them are made cleane, and seperated from their Garbish. 6. Computing. a. Incorrect input or output.Chiefly in garbage in, garbage out (abbreviated GIGO n.), used to express the idea incorrect or poor-quality input will produce faulty output. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > [noun] > garbage garbage1957 society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > [noun] > garbage > garbage in, garbage out garbage in, garbage out1957 GIGO1964 1957 Traffic Q. (U.S.) 11 411 When the basic data to be used by a computer are of questionable accuracy or validity, our personnel have an unusual expression—GIGO—to characterize such information and the answers the computer produces. It simply means ‘garbage in—garbage out’. It emphasizes that the results are no better than the data given to the computer. 1985 Computerworld 28 Jan. sr 10/4 The integrated software requires that users enter data correctly..because if they enter garbage, the data base spreads that garbage to data files throughout the company. 2007 W. H. Kersting Distribution Syst. Modelling & Anal. (ed. 2) Pref. i. So what is the problem? Garbage in, garbage out is the answer. b. Stored data that is redundant or meaningless, esp. that which cannot or will not be accessed by the computer system or program running on the system.Recorded earliest in garbage collector (garbage collector n. 2). ΚΠ 1960 D. J. Edwards LISP II Garbage Collector (MIT Artificial Intelligence Project, Memo No. 19) 1 The present LISP free storage control program, the garbage collector, has a severe limitation. 1966 P. M. Woodward in L. Fox Adv. Programming & Non-numerical Computation ii. 48 Garbage may be defined as all p-words which cannot be reached by following the chains of pointers from active list variables. 2008 R. Sinn Software Security Technol. v. 167 Any objects without a reference are then considered garbage. B. adj. Worthless; useless. In later use colloquial: very bad; terrible; rubbish. Quot. 1817 could alternatively be interpreted as showing the noun, with counterfeit adj. as postmodifier. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless naughteOE unworthc960 nought worthOE unworthya1240 vaina1300 lewd1362 base?1510 to be nothing toc1520 stark naught1528 nothing worth1535 worthilessa1542 draffish1543 baggage1548 dunghill?1555 valureless1563 toyish1572 worthless1573 out (forth) of door (also doors)1574 leaden1577 riff-raff1577 drafty1582 fecklessc1586 dudgeon?1589 nought-worth1589 tenpenny1592 wanwordy?a1595 shotten herring1598 nugatory1603 unvalued1604 priceless1614 unvaluable1615 valuelessa1616 waste1616 trashya1620 draffy1624 stramineous1624 invaluable1640 roly-poly?1645 nugatorious1646 perquisquilian1647 niffling1649 lazy1671 wanworth1724 little wortha1754 flimsy1756 waff1788 null1790 nothingy1801 nothingly1802 twopenny-halfpenny1809 not worth a flaw1810 garbage1817 peanut1836 duffing1839 trash1843 no-account1845 no-count1851 punky1859 rummagy1872 junky1880 skilligalee1883 footle1894 punk1896 wherry-go-nimble1901 junk1908 rinky-dink1913 schlock1916 tripe1927 duff1938 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 expendable1942 (strictly) for the birds1943 tripey1955 schlocky1960 naff1964 dipshit1968 cack1978 1817 J. Hogg Sir Anthony Moore ii. i, in Dramatic Tales I. 176 If thou presumest to vend More of such garbage counterfeit, I'll pay it In coin thou hast not palm'd. 1896 Sun (N.Y.) 4 Feb. 6/5 The garbage talk of Mr. Tillman should not make the country forgetful of the jets of honeyed and perfumed speech spurted by the Hon. William F. Vilas. 1956 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 6 Dec. 1/1 The British Press Council..was formed to raise the standard of news reporting, by eliminating the garbage stuff such as crime, sex and prying into the private lives of individuals. 2006 New Yorker 10 July 79/3 You get twelve goober lines as a truck driver for garbage money. 2018 USA Today (Nexis) 13 Dec. 4 d The movie is completely garbage. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier (in sense A. 3), as in garbage bag, garbage bin, garbage dump, etc.; also with agent nouns, forming compounds in which garbage expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in garbage inspector.Now rare in British, Irish, and New Zealand English. ΚΠ 1861 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Aug. 3/1 This garbage heap, although so near the houses, can only be reached by a roundabout route. 1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 175 The garbage-boxes or ash-barrels..are still the same unsightly..nuisances. 1896 Daily News 3 June 4/1 The responsible, if not dignified post, of garbage inspector. 1937 D. Marlowe Coming, Sir! ii. 46 I struggled with the heavy garbage bins. 1969 ETC. June 217 Dug up from the garbage dump, it seems to be a letter from Boston, telling of various family matters. 2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 (2009) iii. 236 Outside he tossed the garbage bag into an overflowing Dumpster. C2. garbage disposal n. originally and chiefly North American (more fully garbage disposal unit) a bladed, electric device installed beneath a sink which grinds or shreds food waste into small pieces that can pass through the plumbing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > apparatus for refuse disposal refuse destructor1880 refuse consumer1885 garbage disposal1928 wastemaster1946 garburator1947 disposal1953 waste-disposer1962 waste disposal unit1967 1928 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 13 May (Final ed.) (Second News section) 4/5 Twin apartments, with built-in baths and electric refrigeration, garbage disposal units, one with two and the other with three bedrooms are on the upper floor. 1958 Times 13 Jan. 11/2 There is a garbage disposal unit for attachment to the sink which will eliminate all food waste such as small bones, vegetable scraps and peelings, fibrous material. 1975 Chicago Defender 6 Nov. 23/1 This excluded waste disposed of by other means such as fed into the garbage disposal. 2015 M2 FinancialWire (Nexis) 21 Oct. One of the many reasons a garbage disposal gives out could be something blocking the blades from turning and grinding. garbage disposer n. chiefly North American a bladed, electric device installed beneath a sink which grinds or shreds food waste into small pieces that can pass through the plumbing. ΚΠ 1937 Hondo (Texas) Anvil Herald 23 July Electric garbage disposers and electric mixers; electric toasters..—these and other electric appliances put power at the disposal of the housewife. 2018 Daily Gleaner (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 19 Jan. a8 We wanted to have a prep sink in the island with a garbage disposer. garbage fish n. chiefly North American fish of inferior quality, esp. a type of fish considered less desirable as a food or commercial product; cf. junk fish n. at junk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2. Recorded earliest as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > unsound or inferior fish thoke1482 rough fish1816 garbage fish1841 offal1859 shack1904 junk fish1930 1841 Cambr. Independent Press 6 Mar. Sir Peckham Micklethwait communicated his own results in the use of garbage fish oil and bone-dust on his farm. 1887 Rep. in Jrnl. Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. No. 19 6 Dyak Jemain borrowed my casting-net and caught a lot of fine fish, but Pangeran Sahbudin informed me that the large ones were garbage fish; in spite of this the men seemed to appreciate the rare treat of fresh fish. 2009 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 28 Aug. Until just a few decades ago the Japanese considered tuna a garbage fish. garbage man n. chiefly North American a person (esp. a man) employed to collect garbage, esp. household waste, for disposal. ΚΠ 1855 Rep. Commissioner Health in Ordinances of Mayor & City Council of Baltimore App. 77 Seldom are domestic arrangements made for the day, without including in the catalogue the visit of the garbage man. 1857 N.Y. Daily Times 16 June 8/3 Great was the astonishment of the garbage men when they ascertained, but too late, that they had dumped a barrel full of eggs, fresh from the market, into their cart. 1897 Robesonian (Lumberton, N. Carolina) 4 Aug. 7/3 I'll tell you a secret. I used to be a garbage man. 2005 West Austral. (Perth) 22 Dec. 13/3 Since people began putting bins out on the verge themselves and collecting the garbage became more mechanised, fewer people gave something to their local garbage man over Christmas. garbage mouth n. U.S. colloquial (a nickname for) a foul-mouthed person; (also) a tendency to be foul-mouthed; cf. potty mouth n. at potty n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1955 Richmond Collegian (Univ. of Richmond, Va.) 15 Apr. 2/2 And SAE Bob (Garbage mouth) Trimble is spending a lot of time lately in Carolina. 1969 Colorado Springs Gaz.-Tel. 6 Mar. 6 a/6 When she drank to excess, Clark told the jury, she became ‘so outspoken’ that ‘the bowling crowd called her garbage mouth’. 1994 Amer. Spectator Jan. 24/2 She has a garbage mouth on her, and she was calling him motherf——er, c——sucker, and everything else. 2018 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz.-Mail (Nexis) 2 May 3 a He's the biggest garbage mouth in Washington. garbage-mouthed adj. U.S. colloquial characterized by the use of bad language; given to using coarse, obscene, or abusive language, foul-mouthed; cf. potty-mouthed adj. at potty n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1969 Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 26 Feb. I know the officers..have to put up with an unbearable amount of garbage-mouthed verbal abuse from some students. 2018 @LightworkerNow 26 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Apr. 2019) They continue having garbage mouthed guests on their entertainment show. garbage time n. North American Sport (originally Basketball) colloquial a period of time towards the end of a game in which one team has such a substantial lead that the outcome is no longer in doubt.During this time coaches often replace their best players with substitutes, and scoring is typically easier due to reduced focus on defensive play. ΚΠ 1960 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 16 Feb. ii. a11/2 A lot of players like to stay in during ‘garbage time’. That's when one team has a big lead in the game and the defense loosen up. 2019 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 Oct. Penn's offense struggled immensely against Dartmouth's stout defensive unit as it only mustered 13 points, with eight of them coming in garbage time. garbage tin n. originally and chiefly Australian a container, typically made from metal, for household garbage; a rubbish bin. ΚΠ 1898 Mt. Lyell Standard & Strahan Gaz. (Queenstown, Tasmania) 9 Apr. The garbage tin was found in a very fœtid state. 1941 B. Miller Farewell Leicester Square (2000) iii. 64 He swung the wheel over, turning the car abruptly into a side-street,..with a policeman sauntering idly past back doors and garbage tins. 2016 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Nov. 71 It must be pretty well nigh on 30 years since the ubiquitous wheelie began displacing the battered and smelly garbage tin on Brisbane streets. garbage truck n. chiefly North American a large vehicle used to collect garbage for disposal. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > refuse truck or cart pudding-cart1562 dust-cart1776 refuse cart1845 garbage truck1874 sanitation truck1958 1874 Boston Daily Globe 29 May 5/1 Let us establish decent driveways, where pleasure-seekers can breathe clean air without being jostled by offal wagons, garbage trucks and other public nuisances. 2017 W. Wang Chem. 10 Thursday, trash day. We pick the wrong streets to go down and drive for miles behind a garbage truck. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). garbagev. Brit. /ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrbɪdʒ/ Forms: see garbage n.; also 1500s garbaige. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: garbage n. Etymology: < garbage n. †1. transitive. To disembowel or remove the offal from (an animal); to gut (a fish). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel bowel1330 disbowelc1440 debowel1487 unpauncha1500 garbage1542 unbowel1552 disentrail1596 untripe1611 disembowel1613 exenterate1613 hulk1622 eviscerate1623 eventerate1656 garble1661 viscerate1727 degut1933 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > gut guta1400 gill1530 garbage1542 geremumble1599 gip1603 to dress down1843 gib1883 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 161 (note) His cooke found thesame ryng in the bealy of a fishe, which he garbaiged to dresse for his Lordes dyner. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 186 Pilchards..are there taken, garbaged, salted, hanged in the smoke. 1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 8 A Turkie Cock, that when he was pull'd and garbidg'd, weighed thirty pound. a1895 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 560/2 Garbage the fowl when you kill them. †2. intransitive. figurative. Perhaps: to turn or resort to something sinful. With upon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > behave meanly [verb (intransitive)] > feed on moral foulness garbage1615 1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving vii. 22 Lust is growne so vnbounded, so head-strong..it will garbadge without all respect, or controule, vpon Adultery, fornication, possest, the vnpossest, the bond, the free. 3. Chiefly North American. a. transitive. colloquial. To turn (something) into garbage; to spoil, ruin, destroy. Cf. trash v.³ 3. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] mareOE shendOE hinderc1000 amarOE awemc1275 noyc1300 touchc1300 bleche1340 blemisha1375 spill1377 misdoa1387 grieve1390 damagea1400 despoil?a1400 matea1400 snapea1400 mankc1400 overthrowa1425 tamec1430 undermine1430 blunder1440 depaira1460 adommage?1473 endamage1477 prejudicec1487 fulyie1488 martyra1500 dyscrase?1504 corrupt1526 mangle1534 danger1538 destroy1542 spoil1563 ruinate1564 ruin1567 wrake1570 injury1579 bane1587 massacre1589 ravish1594 wrong1595 rifle1604 tainta1616 mutilea1618 to do violence toa1625 flaw1665 stun1676 quail1682 maul1694 moil1698 damnify1712 margullie1721 maul1782 buga1790 mux1806 queer1818 batter1840 puckeroo1840 rim-rack1841 pretty1868 garbage1899 savage1899 to do in1905 strafe1915 mash1924 blow1943 nuke1967 mung1969 1899 Clay County Enterprise (Brazil, Indiana) 6 July ‘They tell me the Sunday Shriek garbled your interview.’ ‘Garbled?’ replied the eminent poetess, ‘they garbaged it.’ 1938 Amer. Speech 13 195 ‘You garbaged the play’ (spoiled it). 1975 Cycling World Jan. 108/2 Jumping like that, I would have garbaged the frame for sure. 2002 C. Hiaasen Basket Case xxx. 294 They garbaged my car, so a friend came and got me. b. transitive. To throw (something) away as garbage; to discard. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > treat as refuse [verb (transitive)] waste-basket1889 junk1911 garbage1915 the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > as worthless trash1909 garbage1915 1915 Printer & Publisher (Toronto) Jan. 40/1 All felt or stiff hats are to be stowed away, smashed, garbaged, or otherwise disposed of. 1951 Cougar (Univ. of Houston) 7 Dec. 2/2 Several truck loads of mud were removed from the drained pool and scores of dead lily pads were garbaged. 2019 Vancouver Island Free Daily (Nexis) 13 Jan. There are the environmental costs of some people undoubtedly garbaging their used clothing in absence of donation bins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1422v.1542
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garbagen.adj.

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garbagev.