trashery en · NOUN
Etymology
From trash + -ery.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A collection of garbage or rubbish; things, persons, ideas and such which are of no significant value.
. . . this tasteless rightwing trashery . . . .
2000, Ed Sanders, America: A History in Verse, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 175:I took four sketches of the different head-dresses, all equally detestable, which I shall finish and bring to shew you how far superior the natural beauty of our own girls in their simple dresses is to the trashery of the French belles.
1859, John W. Burgon, The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman: A Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler, page 92:But it is not altogether funny to visualize our libraries becoming trasheries, our Centers of Learning objects of public ridicule and our occupations irrelevant to the world that is coming to be.
1969 June, Robert A. Flammang, “Communications”, in Journal of Economic Issues, volume 3, number 2, pages 217–18:Who comes in foreign trashery Of tinkling chain and spur, A walking haberdashery Of feathers, lace, and fur.
1813, Sir Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain, (Google search result at gutenberg.org)So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . .
1972 Jan. 3, Judith Crist, "Movies," New York Magazine, p. 47 (Google preview)
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| trasheries | Number=Plur | lexicographic |