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Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ダストボックス (dasutobokkusu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from dust + box.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
dust box
Today it means: waste bin, trash can Full definition →
Today it means: waste bin, trash can Full definition →
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ダストボックス (dasutobokkusu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from dust + box.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.