garburator en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of garbage + incinerator. First attested in c. 1947 in the Winnipeg Tribune.
Meanings
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(Canada, UK) Synonym of garbage disposal.
‘[…] She burped and tried to jam the bottle into the waste-hole of the waste-disposal thing, the thingummy.’ ‘Garburator,’ said Pigs Trotter. ‘I think they’re called Garburators.’ ‘Garburator, that’s it. She tried to jam the bottle down the Garburator.[…]’
1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| garburators | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| garberator | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Garberator | alternative | lexicographic | |
| garbarator | alternative | lexicographic |