garbage

Meaning

Noun

1. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable) Food waste material of any kind.
2. (Australia, Canada, Cumbria, England, US, archaic, dialectal, uncountable) foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
3. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable) Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
4. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable) A place or receptacle for waste material.
5. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable) Nonsense; gibberish.
6. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable) Something or someone worthless.
7. (Australia, Canada, US, obsolete, uncountable) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
8. (Australia, Canada, US, attributive, slang, uncountable) An easy shot.
9. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
10. (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.

Verb

to eviscerate

Adj

bad, crap, shitty

Synonyms

rubbish

trash

refuse

waste

litter

junk

filth

scraps

offal

sweepings

food waste

debris

residue

abracadabra

slop

drivel

waste matter

scum

rubbish

sewage

dust

dung

dustbin

entrails

excrement

farrago

fiddle-faddle

filthiness

folderol

gibberish

gobbledygook

hogwash

hot air

muck

mumbo jumbo

nonsense

odds and ends

of no value

pap

piffle

pollutants

refusal

rejection

rejects

remains

residuum

rigamarole

scrap

shit

💩

spilth

Translations

Müll

basura

Abfall

ordures

lixo

🗑️

spazzatura

déchet

immondizia

afval

ordure

🗑️

déchets

çöp

rifiuti

huisvuil

🗑️

saleté

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɑːbɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: garbage

Cognate with Old High German: garawan

Cognate with Old English: ġearwian

In summary

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

Sentences

The Widows charge the garbage truck , but Orville gets away .