garbage

What it means

1. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountableFood waste material of any kind.

   Synonyms: gubbins, leftovers, orts, scraps

2. AustraliaCanadaCumbriaEnglandUSarchaicdialectaluncountableLancashireFoul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
3. AustraliaCanadaUSuncountableUseless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

   The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

   Synonyms: junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste, cultch, crap, debris

In a sentence

The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

Where it comes from

1. Frankish*garwijan“to make ready”
2. Germanic
3. Old Frenchgarber“to refine, make neat or clean”
4. Middle Englishgarbage“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”
5. Englishgarbage

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