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trash

noun
/tɹæʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).

  1. derived from *dóru✻ — “tree”
  2. derived from *þrakjaz✻ — “dirt”
  3. inherited from trasch

Definitions

  1. Useless physical things to be discarded

    Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

    • A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.

  2. A container into which things are discarded.

  3. Something worthless or of poor quality.

    • When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.

    2. The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will…

      The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.

    3. Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal…

      Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.

    4. People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)

    5. A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.

      • Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan
      • I am Harry Potter trash.

    6. Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be…

      Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

      • Drag the unwanted message to the trash.

    7. To discard.

      • Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

    8. To make into a mess.

      • The burglars trashed the house.

    9. To beat soundly in a game.

    10. To treat as trash, or worthless matter

      To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.

    11. To free from trash, or worthless matter

      To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

      • to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
      • the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves

    12. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game

      To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

      • I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me

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Derived

Ameritrash, betrash, cybertrash, field trash, gendertrash, Hamiltrash, infotrash, Kartrashian, microtrash, oil trash, one man's trash is another man's treasure, pass the trash, piece of trash, poor white trash, take out the trash, talk trash, the trash takes itself out, trailer park trash, trailer trash, trash bag, trash bandit, trashbox, trash boy, trash can, trash chute, trash compactor, trash cymbal, trash day, trash drawer, trashed, trasher, trashery, trash fire, trashfire, trash fish, trash for brains, trash heap of history, trash hose, trash ice, trashification · +33 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at trash. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01trash02refuse03garbage04waste05rubbish

A definitional loop anchored at trash. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at trash

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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