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thrash
English
Etymology
From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Verb
thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
- I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
- c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
Derived terms
- thrashel
- thrasher
Translations
Noun
thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)
- (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
- 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
- As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
- 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
- (music, uncountable) thrash metal
References
- (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.
Anagrams
- Harths, harths
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English thrash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tr??/ (occasionally pronounced as [?????])
- Hyphenation: thrash
Noun
thrash m (uncountable)
- (music) thrash metal, thrash
- Synonym: thrashmetal
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rubbish
English
Etymology
From Middle English r?b?us (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Late Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???b??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???b??/, /???-/
- Hyphenation: rub?bish
Noun
rubbish (usually uncountable, plural rubbishes)
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
- (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) An item, or items, of low quality.
- (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Nonsense.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense
- (archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings.
Alternative forms
- rubbage (now dialectal)
Derived terms
Related terms
- rubble (possibly)
Translations
Adjective
rubbish (comparative more rubbish, superlative most rubbish)
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.
- Synonyms: abysmal, crappy, horrendous, shitty, terrible; see also Thesaurus:bad, Thesaurus:low-quality
Translations
Interjection
rubbish (chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial)
- Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.
- Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!
- Synonyms: bollocks, bullshit
Translations
Verb
rubbish (third-person singular simple present rubbishes, present participle rubbishing, simple past and past participle rubbished)
- (transitive, chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage. [from c. 1950s (Australia, New Zealand)]
Derived terms
- rubbisher
Translations
References
Further reading
- waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rubbish”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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