wastepaper basket

English

A wastepaper basket

Noun

wastepaper basket (plural wastepaper baskets)

1. A small open container for discarded paper etc; a wastebasket.

Synonyms

• wagger-pagger-bagger (slang, humorous, dated)
• wastebasket
• wastebin
• wastepaper bin

Translations

small open container for discarded paper

• Catalan: paperera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廢紙簍／废纸篓 (zh) (fèizhǐlǒu), 紙簍／纸篓 (zh) (zhǐlǒu)

• Danish: affaldskurv c (especially in a public outdoors place)
• Finnish: roskakori (fi)
• French: corbeille à papiers (fr) f
• German: Papierkorb (de) m
• Greenlandic: eqqaavik
• Hungarian: papírkosár (hu)
• Irish: ciseán páipéir m
• Italian: cestino della carta straccia m
• Japanese: くずかご (ja) (kuzukago)
• Korean: 휴지통 (ko) (hyujitong)
• Macedonian: ко́рпа за харти́ени отпа́доци f (kórpa za hartíeni otpádoci)
• Romanian: coș (ro) n, coș de hârtii n
• Russian: корзи́на для бума́г f (korzína dlja bumág)
• Spanish: papelera f
• Swedish: papperskorg (sv) c, rundarkiv n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: གད་སྙིགས་བླུག་ས (gad snyigs blug sa)
• Turkish: ofis tipi çöp kovası, ofis tipi çöp kutusu, perfore çöp kovası, perfore çöp kutusu, delikli çöp kovası, delikli çöp kutusu, fileli çöp kovası, fileli çöp kutusu
• Welsh: basged sbwriel f