garbo
English edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of garbage + -o (colloquialising suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (AU) (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
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Afar edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
garbó f (plural gárab m or gárob m)
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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
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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.
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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
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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)
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References edit
- ^ “garbo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “garbo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
garbo m (plural garbos)
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
garbo
Further reading edit
- “garbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
garbo (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜇ᜔ᜊᜓ)