Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - trash
Trash
trash
n. & v. --n. 1 esp. US worthless or waste stuff; rubbish, refuse. 2 a worthless person or persons. 3 a thing of poor workmanship or material. 4 (in full cane-trash) W.Ind. the refuse of crushed sugar canes and dried stripped leaves and tops of sugar cane used as fuel. --v.tr. 1 esp. US colloq. wreck. 2 strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to speed up the ripening process. 3 esp. US colloq. expose the worthless nature of; disparage. Phrases and idioms trash can US a dustbin. trash-ice (on a sea, lake, etc.) broken ice mixed with water. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English trasch fallen leaves and twigs, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect trask rubbish; Old Norse tros fallen leaves and twigs, Old English trus Date: circa 1518 something worth little or nothing: as, junk, rubbish, b. empty talk ; nonsense, inferior or worthless writing or artistic matter (as a television show), ~ talk, something in a crumbled or broken condition or mass, a worthless person, II. verb Date: 1902 transitive verb throw away 1 , vandalize, destroy, attack, assault, spoil, ruin , to subject to criticism or invective, intransitive verb to ~ something or someone ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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