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adj
bad, crap, shitty
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, informal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Food waste material of any kind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gubbins, leftovers, orts, scraps
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Cumbria, England, US, archaic, dialectal, uncountable
Qualifier: Lancashire
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Synonyms: junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, pile of crap, pile of shit, piece of trash, roughage, service item, shit, stuff
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: recyclable
noun
A place or receptacle for waste material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Synonyms: bin, trash
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Nonsense; gibberish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Synonyms: double Dutch, flim-flam, mumbo jumbo, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, BS, bull, bullcrap, bulldust, bull feathers, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double talk, doublespeak, dribble, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, Gallophone, garbage, garble, gash, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse cock, horsefeathers, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horseshit, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trittle trattle, tush, trash, tripe, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Something or someone worthless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cheapie, duff, dirtbag, crapola, garbage, gash, hunk of junk, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of junk, piece of shit, piece of trash, pile of crap, pile of shit, rubbish, schlock, slop, tripe, assbucket, bugger, dog egg, fubble, fuckbucket, lollygag, nought, shicer, shitheap, sop, sparrow-fart, straw, turd, absolute zero, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, carrion, cipher, cockstain, crumb, custron, dandiprat, doink, douchebag, drop kick, fellow, fritlag, geek, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, gooey, hoon, lidderon, losel, loser, louse, maggot, ne'er-do-well, nobody, no-good, no-mark, nonentity, nonce, nowmun, pelf, pig dog, pissant, punk, puny, quat, ramp, rinky-dink, roly-poly, scullion, slubberdegullion, streak of piss, toerag, truant, twerp, wankstain, waste of space, underperson, unworthy, zero
Antonyms: asset, catch, find, prize, resource, treasure, valuable
noun
The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An easy shot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, attributive, slang, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
to eviscerate
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, US, obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gut
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a receptacle where waste can be discarded
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: receptacle
noun
a worthless message
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: drivel
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: message, content, subject matter, substance
Narrower terms: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash, chickenshit, folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop, pap, pablum
noun
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: refuse, food waste, scraps
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
History
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
Across languages
229 source translations are retained for this English entry.
