trashery

== English == === Etymology === From trash +‎ -ery. === Noun === trashery (countable and uncountable, plural trasheries) A collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value. 1813, Sir Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain, (Google search result at gutenberg.org): Who comes in foreign trashery Of tinkling chain and spur, A walking haberdashery Of feathers, lace, and fur. 1972 Jan. 3, Judith Crist, "Movies," New York Magazine, p. 47 (Google preview): So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . . ==== Usage notes ==== Sometimes used as a play on words on the term treasury, as in the following statement concerning the American poet, Ogden Nash (1902-1971): ==== Derived terms ==== white trashery / white-trashery === References === “trashery”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.