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trashfire

noun

Etymology

From trash + fire.

  1. inherited from *péh₂wr̥✻
  2. inherited from *fōr✻ — “fire”
  3. inherited from *fuir✻
  4. inherited from fȳr — “fire”
  5. inherited from fyr
  6. compounded as trashfire — “trash + fire”

Definitions

  1. Fire resulting from trash burning.

    • Children have been burned by sparks from trashfires, open flames of stoves, unscreened fireplaces, contact with pilot lights of space heaters, or by sticking ' metal objects in wall sockets.
    • Island Trashfires[…]Adjacent to the garbage dump (an open sore that drains the Island's poisons around the clock), old convairs lift and lower / over trashfires and the bellies of pedigreed sharks—pampered, overfed, domesticated.

  2. A dumpster fire

    A dumpster fire; a disaster.

    • Putting out the Twitter trashfire / Tonight I’m drinking and talking about ways Twitter could be less of a shitheap.
    • Elex Is The Biggest Trashfire I've Played All Year, But I Still Love It / Elex is a terribly constructed video game full of glitches, lag, eye-sores, and confusing mechanics.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for trashfire. 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