garbage
English
/ˈɡɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɡɑːbɪd͡ʒ/, /ɡɑ(ɹ)ˈbɑːʒ/
noun
Definitions
- Food waste material of any kind.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (often) Something or someone worthless.
- (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
Etymology
Derived from Old French garber (make neat clean, refine).
Origin
Old French
garber
Gloss
make neat clean, refine
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- garbageless English
- garbagelike English
- garbageman English
- garbageness English
- garbageperson English
- garbagescape English
- garbageware English
- garbagewoman English
- garbagey English
- garbo English
- garbological English
- garbologist English
- garbology English
- person English
- woman English
- gearwung Old English
- ġearwian Old English
- garber Old French
- kapich Chuukese