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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-728/
- Published: 2022-01-26T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-25T17:43:10.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

The word for today is…

garbage (noun):

1a : food waste  
b : discarded or useless material  
2a : trash  
b : inaccurate or useless data

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garbage?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Middle English, “poultry organs and body parts used for food, poultry refuse,” borrowed from Anglo-French. Garbage (implied in sergant garbagere – “kitchen servant tasked with plucking and cleaning poultry”) Garbage is of obscure origin but on morphological, semantic, or chronological grounds is unlikely to be related to Anglo-French garbeler, Middle English garbelen “to remove (impurities) from spices” or to Middle French gaburge, grabuge “quarrel, brawl.” The Anglo-French collocation ‘sergant garbagere’ indicates currency of the word as early as 1318 (Household Ordinances of Edward II).

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