different between garbage vs wastebasket
garbage
English
Alternative forms
- garbidge (obsolete or eye dialect)
Etymology
Late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).
Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ?earwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /????b?d??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????b?d??/
- (US, humorous, imitating a French pronunciation) IPA(key): /??(?)?b???/
- Hyphenation: gar?bage
Noun
garbage (uncountable) (chiefly US, Canada, Australia)
- Food waste material of any kind.
- Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (often attributively) Something or someone worthless.
- (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
Synonyms
- junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste
- See also Thesaurus:trash
Antonyms
- artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
garbage (third-person singular simple present garbages, present participle garbaging, simple past and past participle garbaged)
- (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
- 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.
- Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gut
- 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
Adjective
garbage (not comparable)
- (informal) bad, crap, shitty
See also
- Wikipedia article on garbage
Middle English
Alternative forms
- gabage
Etymology
From a derivative of Old French garber.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ar?ba?d??(?)/
Noun
garbage (plural garbages)
- bird dung
- entrails, offal
Descendants
- English: garbage
- Yola: graabache, graapish
References
- “garb??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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wastebasket
English
Etymology
waste +? basket
Noun
wastebasket (plural wastebaskets)
- A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:waste bin
Derived terms
- wastebasket taxon
Translations
Verb
wastebasket (third-person singular simple present wastebaskets, present participle wastebasketing, simple past and past participle wastebasketed)
- (transitive) To discard in a wastebasket.
- ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography
- I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.
- ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography
See also
- wastepaper basket
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