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trashery

noun

Etymology

From trash + -ery.

  1. derived from *dóru✻ — “tree”
  2. derived from *þrakjaz✻ — “dirt”
  3. inherited from trasch
  4. suffixed as trashery — “trash + ery”

Definitions

  1. A collection of garbage or rubbish

    A collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value.

    • Who comes in foreign trashery Of tinkling chain and spur, A walking haberdashery Of feathers, lace, and fur.
    • I took four sketches of the different head-dresses, all equally detestable, which I shall finish and bring to shew you how far superior the natural beauty of our own girls in their simple dresses is to the trashery of the French belles.
    • But it is not altogether funny to visualize our libraries becoming trasheries, our Centers of Learning objects of public ridicule and our occupations irrelevant to the world that is coming to be.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for trashery. 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