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What does garbage mean? Is garbage a Scrabble word?

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Is garbage a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word garbage is a Scrabble US word. The word garbage is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is garbage a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word garbage is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

G2A1R1B3A1G2E1

Is garbage a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word garbage is a Words With Friends word. The word garbage is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3A1R1B4A1G3E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

GARBAGE,

6-letter words (4 found)

BAGGER,BEGGAR,GARAGE,RAGBAG,

5-letter words (8 found)

ABEAR,AGGER,BARGE,BEGAR,EGGAR,GAGER,GARBE,RAGGA,

4-letter words (20 found)

ABER,AGAR,AGER,ARBA,AREA,AREG,BARE,BEAR,BERG,BRAE,BRAG,GAGA,GAGE,GARB,GARE,GEAR,GRAB,RAGA,RAGE,RAGG,

3-letter words (23 found)

ABA,AGA,AGE,ARB,ARE,BAA,BAE,BAG,BAR,BEG,BRA,EAR,EGG,ERA,ERG,GAB,GAE,GAG,GAR,GER,RAG,REB,REG,

2-letter words (10 found)

AA,AB,AE,AG,AR,BA,BE,EA,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 67 words from garbage according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of garbage

garbage

Alternative forms

  • garbidge (obsolete or eye dialect)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑːbɪd͡ʒ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
  • Hyphenation: gar‧bage

Noun

garbage (uncountable) (chiefly US, Canada, Australia)

  1. Food waste material of any kind.
  2. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
  3. A place or receptacle for waste material.
  4. Nonsense; gibberish.
  5. Something or someone worthless.
  6. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  7. (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.

Synonyms

  • junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste
  • See also Thesaurus:trash

Antonyms

  • artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

garbage (third-person singular simple present garbages, present participle garbaging, simple past and past participle garbaged)

  1. (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
    • 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
      I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.
    Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gut

Adjective

garbage (not comparable)

  1. (informal) bad, crap, shitty

See also

  • Wikipedia article on garbage

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • gabage

Etymology

From a derivative of Old French garber.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡarˈbaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

garbage (plural garbagys) (Late Middle English)

  1. bird dung
  2. entrails, offal

Descendants

  • English: garbage
  • Yola: graabache, graapish

References

  • “garbāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org