junkwaren.
/ˈdʒʌŋkwɛː/, U.S. /ˈdʒəŋkˌwɛ(ə)r/ 1. Old or discarded items or materials as a commodity that may be bought and sold; second-hand goods. Now rare.
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1891 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 21 Feb. Old tin, rags, bottles and every description of junkware has the same system of subdivision and succession of prices.
1972 Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 13 Oct. 17/5 (advt.) Big sale starts Sunday... Antiques, furniture, glassware, ironware, and junkware. Reasonable prices.
a1996 D. Rome tr. H. Hershman in P. Anctil Through Eyes of Eagle (2001) 146 The East European immigrants of the time earned their livelihood in the penny trade, peddling from house to house with a basket of ‘junk ware’: candles, knives, needles and thread, or as petty merchants.
2. Computing. Unwanted, superfluous, or malicious software; spec. software of this type included on a new computer or mobile device by its manufacturer or installed without the user's knowledge or consent; cf. bloatware n.
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1985 Junkware in net.micro.mac (Usenet newsgroup) 12 Aug. In spite of the fact that English doesn't need a new phrase for junk software, I am proposing one anyway: Junkware.
2004 Newsweek 13 Dec. 47 Call it whatever you want: adware, spyware, malware or junkware, but it's wrecking the online experience for millions of computer users.
2015 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 29 Mar. The trend for manufacturer-provided ‘junkware’ reached epidemic and scandalous proportions last month when it was revealed that Lenovo..was actually selling laptops with ‘malware’ pre-installed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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