trash
noun
- temporary storage for files that have been deleted
verb
- to dispose, tear apart
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tɹæʃ/
noun
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”).
- Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
“A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.”
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality.
“When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.”
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- 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.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
- People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
“Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan”
“I am Harry Potter trash.”
- Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
“Drag the unwanted message to the trash.”
verb
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”).
- To discard.
“Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.”
- To make into a mess.
“The burglars trashed the house.”
- To beat soundly in a game.
- 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.
“to trash the rattoons of sugar cane”
“the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves”
- 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.
“I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me”