garbo

See also: garbó and garbò

English

Etymology

From garbage +‎ -o (“colloquialising suffix”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

garbo (plural garbos)

1. (Australia, informal) A rubbish collector.
   • 1986, Emily George, Merri Lee: A Feminist Fantasy, page 124,

     Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning.

   • 1998, Hall Greenland, Red Hot: The Life & Times of Nick Origlass, 1908-1996, page 253,

     The referendum papers, accompanied by a strong statement of Council′s position, was to be letterboxed by the Council′s “garbos” (rubbish collectors) and inspectors on a Thursday and collected by volunteers over the weekend.

   • 2010, Zana Fraillon, Monstrum House: Locked In, unnumbered page,

     As far as Jasper was concerned, his mum being a garbo was pretty cool. She got to drive a truck and be home in time to take his little sisters to school. Before she got the job as a rubbish collector, his mum had done shift work and it was left to Jasper to get his sisters to school.

   • 2010, Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia′s Toughest Cop, page 350,

     The priest would bring salvation while the garbo took the rubbish.

Synonyms

• bin man (UK)
• dustman (UK)
• garbage collector (US, Canada)
• garbage man (Australia, US, Canada)
• refuse collector (UK)
• sanitation engineer (US, Canada)
• trashman (US, Canada)

Anagrams

• Bargo, Bogar, Bogra, Gabor, gobar

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German Garbe or Yiddish גאַרב (garb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡarbo]
• Rhymes: -arbo
• Hyphenation: gar‧bo

Noun

garbo (accusative singular garbon, plural garboj, accusative plural garbojn)

1. sheaf
   • 1999, Anna Löwenstein, La ŝtona urbo, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Ni portis eksteren garbojn da pajlo kaj kovris nin per feloj, sub kiuj ni restis sufiĉe varmaj kaj sekaj.

     He carried out sheaves of straw and covered us with pelts, under which we stayed warm and dry enough.

Derived terms

• garbaro (“group of sheaves, shock”)
• garbejo (“granary”)
• garbigi (“to bind into sheaves”)

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Old High German garwi (“dress; equipment; preparation”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). More at garb.

Alternatively, perhaps borrowed from Arabic قَالِب (qālib, “model, outline”), from Persian کالب (“form, mold”), from Ancient Greek καλόπους (kalópous, “shoemaker's block”), from κᾶλον (kâlon, “firewood, joiner's wood”) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot”) in which case cognate with English galoshe.

Noun

garbo m (plural garbi)

1. politeness, gentleness, tact, grace

   Synonyms: educazione, gentilezza, tatto, grazia

2. graceful form
3. (nautical) curvature of the hull

Related terms

• aggarbare
• garbare
• garbatezza
• garbato

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

garbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of garbare

Anagrams

• brago

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Portuguese

Noun

garbo m (plural garbos)

1. grace, style, chic, elegance
2. daintiness
3. polish

Related terms

• garboso

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian garbo.

Noun

garbo m (plural garbos)

1. grace
2. style

Related terms

• garboso