garbageologistn.
/ˌɡɑːbᵻˈdʒɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌɡɑrbᵻˈdʒɑlədʒəst/ 1. A person employed to collect refuse from homes and businesses for disposal; a garbage collector. Cf. garbologist n. 1. rare.In quot. 1940 used sarcastically.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > one who
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1940 Boston Evening Globe 1 Aug. 14/2 Some day..we'll have to call the swill man the garbagologist.
1992 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 3 Jan. c1/3 Kim Williams is a sanitation worker, an environmental technician, a garbageologist, a waste removal engineer... Do not, she warns, call me a garbageman.
2. An anthropologist or archaeologist who studies a community or society through systematic analysis of what is thrown away as garbage. Also (and in earliest use): a person who looks through the garbage of celebrities, politicians, etc., in search of compromising or incriminating material. Cf. garbologist n. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > one who studies
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1971 A. J. Weberman in Esquire Nov. 113/2 Neighbors of Representative Richard Ichord..told me he has a garbage compactor—the garbageologist's nightmare.
1974 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 14 Dec. 1/3 A team of strong-stomached ‘garbagologists’ have been snooping for two years through selected refuse, searching for clues to Tucsonians' eating and wasting habits.
1999 Guardian 19 June (Saturday section) 3/6 What various teams of garbageologists have found in many forays is not at all flattering.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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