garbage

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  1. noun Food wastes, as from a kitchen.
  2. noun Refuse; trash.
  3. noun A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded: tossed the apple core into the garbage.
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  • The key to the whole thing, although much other garbage will be argued, is employment .. —  DaddyBlogger.com
  • Quoting me and telling me I'm over the top and getting mad that I called a word garbage is ridiculous. —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
  • I think the least of this garbage has been the clowns ignoring that they and the media pretty much pressured the statement about Palin's daughter being pregnant and then accused her of 'throwing her daughter under the bus'. —  Irons in the Fire
  • Here, on an alleged college website, this garbage is accepted. —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • Given what garbage is American lower education, until it is fixed, college should operate as if a culpability no-contest suit settlement by the state as reminution for wasting 12 years of your life forcing you to attend its "schools." —  CampusProgress.org
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trash ·  refuse ·  offal ·  debris ·  manure ·  filth ·  junk ·  waste ·  excrement ·  dirt ·  sewage ·  shit
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, offal from fowls.

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  1. Formerly also garbish, garbidge; from Middle English garbage, the entrails of fowls; origin unknown. The form is like Old French garbage, gerbage, Middle Latin garbagium, a tribute or tax paid in sheaves, from Old French garbe, Middle Latin garba, a sheaf (see garb); there may be a connection similar to that shown in G. bündel, the entrails of fish, literally a bundle, = English bundle. There can be no connection with garble, a much later word in English, and one which could not have produced the form garbage.
  2. Formerly also garbish, garbaige; from garbage, n.
 

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/ˈgɑrbədʒ/
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