garbage
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Middle English "the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste", originally "refuse, what is purged away" from Old French garber "to refine, make neat or clean", of Germanic origin, akin to Old High German garawan "to prepare, make ready", Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear
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garbage (uncountable)
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (often attributive) Something or someone worthless.
- 2009, David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips, ISBN 9780967851488, p. 8:
- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
- 2009, David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips, ISBN 9780967851488, p. 8:
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waste material
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garbage (third-person singular simple present garbages, present participle garbaging, simple past and past participle garbaged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To eviscerate.
- 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.
- 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
