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单词 garbage
释义

garbage

[ gahr-bij ]
/ ˈgɑr bɪdʒ /
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noun

Origin of garbage

First recorded in 1400–50; of uncertain origin; Middle English garbage, gabage “discarded parts of butchered fowls; entrails of fowls used for human food”; compare with Middle English garbelage “removal of refuse from spices,” Middle English garbelure “refuse found in spices,” and Old French garbage (also jarbage ) “tax on sheaves of grain,” but the shift of sense here is unclear; see also garble, -age

SYNONYMS FOR garbage

2 litter, refuse, junk, rubbish.
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Words nearby garbage

Garamond, Garamycin, Garand, Garand rifle, garb, garbage, garbage can, garbage collection, garbage in, garbage out, garbageman, garbage truck
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British Dictionary definitions for garbage

garbage
/ (ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ) /

noun

worthless, useless, or unwanted matter
Also called: rubbish discarded or waste matter; refuse
computing invalid data
informal nonsense

Word Origin for garbage

C15: probably from Anglo-French garbelage removal of discarded matter, of uncertain origin; compare Old Italian garbuglio confusion
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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