trash

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”). Compare Swedish trasa.

Pronunciation

• enPR: trăsh, IPA: /træʃ/, X-SAMPA: /tr{S/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

trash (uncountable)

1. Useless things to be discarded
2. A container into which things are discarded
3. Something of poor quality
4. (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash.)
5. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

Synonyms

• garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste
• (container): trash can
• See also Wikisaurus:trash

Related terms

trailer trash trash can trashed trash fish

trashman trashmover trashy

Translations

things to be discarded

• Arabic: مخلفات (ar)
• Armenian: աղբ (hy) (aġb) 
• Chamicuro: s̈hutechi
• Chinese: 垃圾 (lājī)
• Danish: affald (da) n
• Dutch: vuilnis (nl) m, vuil (nl) n
• Estonian: rämps (et)
• Finnish: roska (fi)
• French: déchet (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Müll (de) m, Abfall (de) m
• Haitian Creole: fatra
• Hebrew: זבל (he) (zével) m
• Hungarian: szemét (hu)
• Italian: spazzatura (it) f, immondizia (it) f, rifiuti (it)
• Japanese: ごみ (ja) (gomi)
• Kazakh: қоқым (kk) (qoqım)
• Korean: 쓰레기 (ko) (sseuregi)

• Lithuanian: šiukšlė (lt) f
• Mandarin: 废物 (cmn) (fèiwù)
• Manx: trustyr (gv)
• Navajo: tsʼiilzéí
• Norwegian: avfall (no) n, søppel (no) n, boss (no) n
• Polish: śmieci pl
• Portuguese: lixo (pt)
• Romagnolo: rùsco m
• Romanian: lucru nevaloros (ro) n, rebut (ro) n, gunoi (ro) n, rămășițe (ro) f pl, reziduu (ro) n, deșeu n
• Russian: мусор (ru) (musor)
• Serbo-Croatian: smeće (sh)
• Slovene: smet (sl) f
• Spanish: basura (es)
• Swedish: skräp (sv) n
• Tok Pisin: pipia
• West Frisian: ôffal (fy) n

container

• Armenian: աղբաման (hy) (aġbaman) , զիբիլի յաշիկ (hy) (zibili yašik) 
• Danish: affaldscontainer (da)
• Dutch: vuilnisbak (nl)
• Finnish: roskakori (fi)
• French: corbeille à papier
• German: Papierkorb (de) m

• Italian: cassonetto (it) m
• Romanian: coș de hârtii (ro) n
• Slovene: smetnjak m, koš m
• Spanish: caneca f (Colombia), papelera f
• Swedish: papperskorg (sv) c

something of poor quality

• Armenian: աղբ (hy) (aġb) , զիբիլ (hy) (zibil) 
• Danish: skrammel (da)
• Dutch: prul (nl) m
• Finnish: roska (fi)
• Italian: mondezza (it) f, porcheria (it) f, robaccia (it) f

• Russian: дрянь (ru) (drjan’) f , ерунда (ru) (jerundá) f , халтура (ru) (xaltúra) f 
• Spanish: basura (es) f
• Swedish: skräp (sv) n

people of low social status or class

• Armenian: թափթփուկ (hy) (t’ap’t’p’uk) 
• Finnish: roskaväki
• Italian: feccia (it) f

• Russian: отродье (ru) (otródʹje) n , отребье (ru) (otrébʹje) n , шваль (ru) (švalʹ) f 

computer terminology

• Finnish: roskakori (fi)
• French: corbeille (fr) f
• German: Mülleimer (de) m
• Luxembourgish: Poubelle (lb) f

• Portuguese: lixeira (pt) f
• Spanish: papelera (es) f
• Swedish: papperskorg (sv) c

Verb

trash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed)

1. (US) To discard.
2. (US) To make into a mess.

   The burglars trashed the house.

3. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
4. (US) To disrespect someone or something

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:junk

Translations

discard

• Finnish: heittää pois
• German: wegwerfen (de)
• Italian: scartare (it)

• Swedish: slänga (sv), ‎kasta bort
• Tok Pisin: tromwe

make into a mess

• Finnish: sotkea (fi)

• German: in Unordnung bringen

beat soundly

• Dutch: kapotmaken, stukslaan (nl)
• Finnish: löylyttää (fi)

• German: verhauen

Derived terms

• trash out

See also

recycle bin

Anagrams

• harts
• raths