Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To discard. · To make into a mess. · To beat soundly in a game. · To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. · A container into which things are discarded. · Something worthless or of poor quality. · Media, such as movies and novels, that are entertaining but unsophisticated, crass or aimed at the lowest common denominator.
From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”), perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”). Pokorny instead derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
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