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trashery

trashery noun: a collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value.

Noun

trashery (countable and uncountable, plural trasheries)

  1. A collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value.
    • Who comes in foreign trashery
      Of tinkling chain and spur,
      A walking haberdashery
      Of feathers, lace, and fur.1813, Sir Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain, (Google search result at gutenberg.org)
    • I took four sketches of the different head-dresses, all equally detestable, which I shall finish and bring to shew you how far superior the natural beauty of our own girls in their simple dresses is to the trashery of the French belles.1859, John W. Burgon, The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman: A Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler, page 92

Examples of trashery in a sentence

  • So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . .1972 Jan. 3, Judith Crist, "Movies," New York Magazine, p. 47 (Google preview)
  • . . . this tasteless rightwing trashery . . . .2000, Ed Sanders, America: A History in Verse, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 175:

Forms of trashery

pluraltrasheries

Origin of trashery

From trash + -ery.

Words formed from trashery

Questions about trashery

What does trashery mean?
Trashery means a collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value.
How do you use trashery in a sentence?
So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . .
What part of speech is trashery?
Trashery is a noun.
What is the plural of trashery?
The plural of trashery is trasheries.

Words near trashery in the dictionary

  1. trashed
  2. trashed out
  3. trasher
  4. trasheries
  5. trashers
  6. trashery
  7. trashes
  8. trashes out
  9. trashfire
  10. trashfires
  11. Trashi Yangtse

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