English Explanatory Dictionary

trash

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
  2. A container into which things are discarded.
  3. Something worthless or of poor quality.
  4. A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
  5. The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
  6. Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
  7. People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
  8. A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
  9. Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
verb
  1. To discard.
  2. To make into a mess.
  3. To beat soundly in a game.
  4. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
  5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
  6. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

Pronunciation

trăsh /tɹæʃ/ en-us-trash.ogg

Word forms

trash trashes trashing trashed

Etymology

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).

Synonyms

garbage (1-3) junk (1,3) rubbish waste cultch crap debris dreck drek garbage gash junk 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 trash refuse trashcan trash can trashbin trash bin garbage can rubbish bin bin scrap stan admirer aficionado buff connoisseur enthusiast devotee maniac fan fanatic fancier fancy fiend freak geek junkie partisan rooter zealot recycle bin detrash

Related words

waste bin jerk inutility

Derived words

Ameritrash betrash cybertrash field trash gendertrash Hamiltrash infotrash Kartrashian microtrash oil trash one man's trash is another man's treasure pass the trash piece of trash poor white trash take out the trash talk trash the trash takes itself out trailer park trash trailer trash trash bag trash bandit trashbox trash boy trash can trash chute trash compactor trash cymbal trash day trash drawer trashed trasher trashery trash fire trashfire trash fish trash for brains trash heap of history trash hose trash ice trashification trashify trashion trashless trashlike trash line trashman trash mob trashmover trashola trash panda trashpaper trashpost trash pull trash rack trashscape trash sport trashsport trash-talk trash talk trash-talker

Translations

Danish: papirkurv Finnish: roskakori French: corbeille Galician: papeleira German: Papierkorb Italian: cestino Luxembourgish: Poubelle Portuguese: lixeira Portuguese: reciclagem Russian: корзи́на Russian: му́сорная корзи́на Spanish: papelera Swedish: papperskorg Ukrainian: ко́шик
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