garbo
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of garbage + -o (colloquialising suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]garbo (countable and uncountable, plural garbos)
- (countable, Australia, informal) A rubbish collector; a garbage man.
- 1986, Emily George, Merri Lee: A Feminist Fantasy, page 124:
- Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning.
- 1998, Hall Greenland, Red Hot: The Life & Times of Nick Origlass, 1908-1996, page 253:
- The referendum papers, accompanied by a strong statement of Council′s position, was to be letterboxed by the Council′s “garbos” (rubbish collectors) and inspectors on a Thursday and collected by volunteers over the weekend.
- 2010, Zana Fraillon, Monstrum House: Locked In, unnumbered page:
- As far as Jasper was concerned, his mum being a garbo was pretty cool. She got to drive a truck and be home in time to take his little sisters to school. Before she got the job as a rubbish collector, his mum had done shift work and it was left to Jasper to get his sisters to school.
- 2010, Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia′s Toughest Cop, page 350:
- The priest would bring salvation while the garbo took the rubbish.
- (Australia, Canada, US, uncountable, colloquial, derogatory) Garbage; something considered worthless.
- 2012, Mickael Taddeo, Gabriel's Mountain, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 229:
- "Any quartz in the Mountain?" / "Just garbo quartz, not enough to produce any electrical fields." / "No disruption in the magnetic field?" / "No, sir."
- 2016, Clare Revell, Violets in February, Pelican Book Group, →ISBN:
- Then they beat me and burned me and locked me up, before handing me back like a piece of garbo, when I acted up or they got tired of me.
- 2022 March 19, Dan Clarendon, “'Hogwarts Legacy' Will Reportedly Welcome Transgender Characters — You Hear That, J.K.?”, in Distractify[1], archived from the original on 2022-04-22:
- Another Twitter user wrote, "I could lie to you and say that I'm totally not interested in that game [but] I am interested. It sucks so much that JKR is a transphobic piece of garbo. ... I think if I do play it, I'll make it clear in all promotions my feelings about JKR and also promote a trans charity for folks to donate their funds towards. Maybe it's not enough, and I might not have a lot of funds, but I do wanna use my voice to do what I can to support my trans friends."
- 2022 December 7, Mike Bloom, quoting Sami Layadi, “'Survivor 43's' Sami Layadi Explains Why He Never Went After Cody and Jesse”, in Parade[2], archived from the original on 2022-12-08:
- Then Noelle told me she's a Paralympian and I was like, "Well, my lie was just garbo. That was terrible. Noelle, you're a beast!"
Synonyms
[edit]- bin man (UK)
- dustman (UK)
- garbage collector (US, Canada)
- garbage man (Australia, US, Canada)
- refuse collector (UK)
- sanitation engineer (US, Canada)
- trashman (US, Canada)
- See Thesaurus:garbage collector
Anagrams
[edit]Afar
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]garbó f (plural gárab m or gárob m)
Declension
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absolutive | garbó | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | garbó | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | garbó | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | garbó | |||||||||||||||||
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References
[edit]- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “garbo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics[3], Leiden: Leiden University
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]garbo (accusative singular garbon, plural garboj, accusative plural garbojn)
- sheaf
- 1999, Anna Löwenstein, La ŝtona urbo, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- Ni portis eksteren garbojn da pajlo kaj kovris nin per feloj, sub kiuj ni restis sufiĉe varmaj kaj sekaj.
- He carried out sheaves of straw and covered us with pelts, under which we stayed warm and dry enough.
Derived terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Old High German garwi (“dress; equipment; preparation”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”).[1] More at garb.
Alternatively, perhaps borrowed from Arabic قَالِب (qālib, “model, outline”), from Persian کالب (“form, mold”), from Ancient Greek κᾱλοπόδιον (kālopódion, “shoemaker's block”), from κᾶλον (kâlon, “firewood, joiner's wood”) + πούς (poús, “foot”) in which case cognate with English galoshe.
Noun
[edit]garbo m (plural garbi)
- politeness, gentleness, tact, grace
- Synonyms: educazione, gentilezza, tatto, grazia
- graceful form
- (nautical) curvature of the hull
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- garbo3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- garbo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]garbo
References
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian garbo.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -aɾbu
- Hyphenation: gar‧bo
Noun
[edit]garbo m (plural garbos)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “garbo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “garbo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]garbo m (plural garbos)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]garbo
Further reading
[edit]- “garbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈɡaɾbo/ [ˈɡaɾ.bo]
- Rhymes: -aɾbo
- Syllabification: gar‧bo
Noun
[edit]garbo (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜇ᜔ᜊᜓ)
Derived terms
[edit]- English clippings
- English terms suffixed with -o
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- Australian English
- English informal terms
- English terms with quotations
- Canadian English
- American English
- English colloquialisms
- English derogatory terms
- en:Occupations
- en:People
- Afar terms with IPA pronunciation
- Afar lemmas
- Afar nouns
- Afar feminine nouns
- aa:Landforms
- Esperanto terms borrowed from German
- Esperanto terms derived from German
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/arbo
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto nouns
- Esperanto terms with quotations
- eo:Agriculture
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/arbo
- Rhymes:Italian/arbo/2 syllables
- Italian terms borrowed from Old High German
- Italian terms derived from Old High German
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Italian terms borrowed from Arabic
- Italian terms derived from Arabic
- Italian terms derived from Persian
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Nautical
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Italian
- Portuguese terms derived from Italian
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aɾbu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aɾbu/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾbo
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾbo/2 syllables
- Spanish terms borrowed from Italian
- Spanish terms derived from Italian
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aɾbo
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aɾbo/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script