Word origin
[1925–30, for an earlier sense;
trash +
-ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Nazi, decibel, distinctive feature, gimmick, reflex camera-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: classified, connected, loaded, unattended, unsettled