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trashy, a.|ˈtræʃɪ|
[f. trash n.1 + -y.]
1. Of the nature of trash; rubbishy; worthless.
a1620J. Dyke Sel. Serm. (1640) 286 Such slovenly meate, such trashy meat, such bitter meat. 1693G. Pooley in Phil. Trans. XVII. 675 The..sparry, stony, and trashy parts rise up to the top. 1868Athenæum 14 Mar. 397/2 Trashy words set to trashy music. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. C.'s Lett. (1883) I. 14 Reading the trashiest heap of novels.
2. Encumbered with trash, that is, with the withered growth of the previous season. U.S.
1905–6Trade Catalogue (Cent. Dict. Supp.), The high curve of the beam prevents fouling in trashy land.
3. Of people: worthless, disreputable. colloq.
1862‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines vii. 167 He regarded the white man as altogether too ‘trashy’ to be treated with much ceremony. 1898B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 148 Of bad habits sairy man. Dick, Ah's flait he's nobbut trashy. 1931H. Nicolson Diary 31 Dec. (1966) 100, I am thought trashy and a little mad. I have been reckless and arrogant. 1935[see piney-woods cracker s.v. piney wood]. 1977Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 13-c/1, I honestly couldn't believe such things happened except in low class trashy families.
Hence ˈtrashily adv.; ˈtrashiness.
1836J. Brown Lett. (1907) 34, I have been..feeling miscellaneously and therefore trashily. 1857Sat. Rev. 10 Jan. 37/2 A work of uniform trashiness. 1880V. Lee Stud. Italy ii. ii. 26 A grand thought..mixed and amalgamated with trashiness. |