English Explanatory Dictionary

garbage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Food waste material of any kind.
  2. Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
  3. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
  4. Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
  5. A place or receptacle for waste material.
  6. Nonsense; gibberish.
  7. Something or someone worthless.
  8. The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  9. An easy shot.
  10. Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
  11. Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
verb
  1. to eviscerate
adj
  1. bad, crap, shitty

Pronunciation

/ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/ /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ en-us-garbage.ogg /ɡɑ(ɾ).bedʒ/

Word forms

garbage garbidge garbages garbaging garbaged

Etymology

From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”). Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear

Synonyms

gubbins leftovers orts scraps junk refuse rubbish trash waste cultch crap debris dreck drek garbage gash litter pelf piece of crap piece of garbage piece of shit pile of crap pile of shit piece of trash roughage service item shit stuff bin double Dutch flim-flam mumbo jumbo absurdity all my eye all my eye and Betty Martin applesauce bafflegab balderdash balls baloney banana oil Bandini baragouin batcrap batshit bilgewater blah blather blatherskite bobbins bollocks bosh BS bull bullcrap bulldust bull feathers bullshit bullspeak bunk

Antonyms

recyclable asset catch find prize resource treasure valuable

Related words

hot garbage

Derived words

carbage garbage bag garbage bandit garbage bin garbage can garbage chute garbage collect garbage collected garbage collection garbage collector garbage-collector garbage day garbage disposal garbage disposal unit garbage dump garbage fire garbage fly garbage gleaning Garbage Grove garbage heap of history garbage in, garbage out garbage lady garbageless garbagelike garbageman garbage man garbage mitt garbageness garbage pail garbage panda garbage patch garbageperson garbage picking garbage plate garbager garbagescape garbage scow garbage time garbage truck garbageware garbage woman garbagewoman garbagey garbo garbologist garbology gubbish piece of garbage snarge treat like garbage

Translations

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