Etymology

trashmover

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Today it means: A fairly heavy winter storm. Full definition →

English mover ← Middle English moven ← Old Northern French mover
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The story

  1. Englishtrash
  2. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  4. Proto-Italic*moweō
  5. Latinmovēre
  6. Old Northern Frenchmover
  7. Middle Englishmoven
  8. Englishmove
  9. Englishmover
  10. English todaytrashmover

From trash + mover, implying that such a storm will move or shift refuse on the street.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.