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carbage

noun

Etymology

Blend of carb + garbage, or carb + -age.

  1. derived from *garwijan✻ — “to make ready”
  2. derived from garber — “to refine, make neat or clean”
  3. inherited from garbage — “the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”
  4. compounded as carbage — “carb + garbage”

Definitions

  1. Shreds and patches of cloth cut off by a tailor when cutting out clothes.

  2. Food that is high in carbohydrates.

    • The most important reason to avoid “carbage” like sugar, white flour, and highly processed foods is that they are foreign to our genetic makeup.
    • This is the same process that browns foods, such as bread crust. The more carbage we eat, the more glycation occurs.
    • A plain garden salad. That was all she ordered, making me feel like a heifer for having gotten the fried chicken quesadilla. But screw it. After the embarrassment I'd suffered, I needed major carbage.

  3. garbage in a car

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for carbage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA