garbage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Things you throw away because they are no longer wanted; waste.

   Please take the garbage out before the truck comes.

2. 2
   noun

   A container where waste is put.

   He threw the empty bottle into the garbage.

3. 3
   noun

   Something worthless or nonsense (informal).

   Don't believe everything online; a lot of it is garbage.

From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”). Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear

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