garburator
English
Alternative forms
- garbarator
- Garberator (proprietary)
- garberator
Etymology
1948 in Canada, from garbage + -ator.
Noun
garburator (plural garburators)
- (Canada, UK) Synonym of garbage disposal.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:
- ‘She burped and tried to jam the bottle into the waste-hole of the waste-disposal thing, the thingummy.’
‘Garburator,’ said Pigs Trotter. ‘I think they're called Garburators.’
‘Garburator, that's it. She tried to jam the bottle down the Garburator.’
- ‘She burped and tried to jam the bottle into the waste-hole of the waste-disposal thing, the thingummy.’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37: