trash

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === enPR: trăsh, IPA(key): /tɹæʃ/ Rhymes: -æʃ === Noun === trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes) (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. (chiefly Canada, US, metonymic) A container into which things are discarded. Synonyms: trashcan, trash can, trashbin, trash bin, garbage can, rubbish bin, bin Coordinate terms: recycle bin, recycling bin, recycling (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality. A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful. Synonyms: garbage, (chiefly British) rubbish (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) 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. Coordinate terms: straw, stover, shaw (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades. Synonym: scrap (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.) (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks. Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary. Synonym: (in Microsoft Windows) recycle bin ==== Usage notes ==== (garbage, rubbish): The noun is uncountable in Inner Circle Englishes. The plural trashes is found for example in Indian English. ==== Synonyms ==== garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste (container): trash can (storage for deleted files): recycle bin (in Microsoft Windows) See also Thesaurus:trash ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === trash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed) (US) To discard. (US) To make into a mess. (US) To beat soundly in a game. (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect. 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop. Synonym: detrash 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. ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:junk ==== Derived terms ==== trash out ==== Translations ==== === See also === recycle bin === References === === Anagrams === Arths, HARTs, Harts, Raths, Stahr, harts, raths, shart, tahrs, thars == Albanian == === Etymology === See Albanian trashë (“thick, fat, massive”) (from Proto-Albanian *trauša, according to Vladimir Orel). === Verb === trash (aorist trasha, participle trashur) (transitive) to thicken, to fatten, to plump up (something) Synonym: majm (figurative) to magnify, inflate (an object) Synonyms: zmadhoj, lartësoj, fryj to exaggerate (a story) Synonyms: ekzagjeroj, teproj to strengthen, deepen (a friendship, relationship, conversation) Synonyms: forcoj, thelloj ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== References ==== === Further reading === “trash”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006 FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980 == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English trash. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtrɛʃ/* Rhymes: -ɛʃ === Adjective === trash (invariable) of an unrefined or vulgar taste; trash === Noun === trash m (invariable) art movement that emphasizes what is ugly, grotesque, or vulgar; trash === References === == Middle English == === Noun === trash alternative form of trasch