trash

§English

§Etymology

Probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreahs, þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).

§Pronunciation

• enPR: trăsh, IPA^(key): /træʃ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

§Noun

trash (uncountable)

1. (chiefly US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
   • Landor

     A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.

2. A container into which things are discarded.
3. Something worthless or 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.
6. A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Markham to this entry?)

§Synonyms

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

§Derived terms

trailer trash trash bag trash can trashed

trashery trash fish trashman trashmover

trashy white trash

§Translations

things to be discarded

• Arabic: مخلفات
• Armenian: աղբ (ałb)
• Burmese: အမှိုက် (a.hmuik)
• Chamicuro: s̈hutechi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 垃圾 (zh) (lājī)

• Danish: affald (da) n
• Dutch: vuilnis (nl) m, vuil (nl) n
• Estonian: rämps
• Finnish: roska (fi)
• French: déchet (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: ôffal n

• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Müll (de) m, Abfall (de) m
• Haitian Creole: fatra
• Hebrew: זבל (he) m (zével)
• Hindi: कूड़ा m (kura)
• Hungarian: szemét (hu)
• Indonesian: sampah (id)
• Irish: bruscar (ga) m
• Italian: spazzatura (it) f, immondizia (it) f, rifiuti (it)
• Japanese: ごみ (ja) (gomi)

• Kazakh: қоқым (qoqım)
• Korean: 쓰레기 (ko) (sseuregi)
• Lithuanian: šiukšlė f
• Mandarin: 废物 (zh) (fèiwù)
• Manx: trustyr
• Navajo: tsʼiilzéí
• Norwegian: avfall (no) n, søppel (no) n, boss n
• Polish: śmieci pl
• Portuguese: lixo (pt)
• Romagnolo: rùsco m
• Romanian: lucru nevaloros n, rebut (ro) n, gunoi (ro) n, rămășițe f pl, reziduu (ro) n, deșeu (ro) n
• Russian: мусор (ru) (musor)
• Serbo-Croatian: smeće (sh)
• Slovene: smet f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wótpadki pl, wótpadanki pl

• Spanish: basura (es)
• Swedish: skräp (sv) n
• Tok Pisin: pipia
• Welsh: sbwriel (cy) m

container

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

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

something of poor quality

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

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

people of low social status or class

• Armenian: թափթփուկ (tʿapʿtʿpʿuk)
• Finnish: roskaväki
• Italian: feccia (it) f

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

computer terminology

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

• Portuguese: lixeira (pt) f
• Spanish: papelera 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.
   • 1989, InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)

     Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

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
5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

   to trash the rattoons of sugar cane

   (Can we find and add a quotation of B. Edwards to this entry?)

6. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
7. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)

§Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:junk

§Translations

to discard

• Finnish: heittää pois, heittää roskiin, heittää menemään
• German: wegwerfen (de)
• Italian: scartare

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

to make into a mess

• Finnish: sotkea (fi)

• German: ^{(please verify)} in Unordnung bringen

to beat soundly

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

• German: verhauen

to disrespect

• Finnish: halveksia

to free from trash, or worthless matter

• Finnish: heittää pois, heittää roskiin, heittää menemään

to treat as trash

• Finnish: ylenkatsoa, halventaa

to hold back by a trash or leash

• Finnish: pitää kytkettynä

§Derived terms

• trash out

§See also

recycle bin

§Anagrams

• harts
• raths