Trash Definition
- tramps
- wastrels
- canaille (both French)
- sans-culottes
- greek
- hoi polloi
- white-trash
- good-for-nothings
- varmints
- guttersnipes
- sharecroppers
- poor whites
- the poor
- outlaws
- thieves
- riches
- goods
- money
- the upper class
- aristocracy
- the wealthy
- information
- sense
- valuables
- possessions
- assets
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Trash
Origin of Trash
Probably a dialectal form of (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs"). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage"), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow"), Swedish trÃ¥s (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste"). Compare also Old English þreahs, þreax (“rottenness, rubbish").
From Wiktionary
Probably of Scandinavian origin Norwegian dialectal trask
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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