Garbon.¹

Brit.

/ˈɡɑːbəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈɡɑrboʊ/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Garbo.

Etymology: < the name of Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 1905–90), Swedish-born U.S. film actress, who was renowned for her reclusive behaviour.The actress legally changed her surname to the more distinctive Garbo in 1923 on the advice of her mentor Mauritz Stiller, then Sweden's foremost film director, who had cast her as the female lead in his film Gösta Berlings Saga (1924).

I. Compounds.

1. As a modifier, designating something characteristic or reminiscent of Greta Garbo, esp. in terms of her appearance, style, or reclusive behaviour.

ΚΠ

1928 Vogue 24 Nov. 49/2 A complete understanding of the Garbo finger play, manicure technique, and make-up methods would do no one any harm.

1935 Washington Post 18 Sept. x3/2 The Countess dislikes the Garbo style of coiffure and keeps her hair cropped and shaped to her head.

1970 R. Johnston Black Camels ii. 27 You really are in your Garbo mood, Ben.

2001 Chesapeake Bay Mag. Oct. 10/1 When we're happily settled in some quiet Bay nook at anchor, you can safely assume we're having a Garbo moment. Ve vant to be alone.

2. As a modifier, designating a hat made from soft material with a wide floppy brim, esp. in Garbo hat.Quot. 1929 shows the full name Greta Garbo as a modifier in the same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > felt > with broad brim

wide awake1837

kausia1850

terai hat1888

Borsalino1914

Garbo1930

1929 Bristol (Pa.) Courier 27 June 1/2 She wore a..Greta Garbo horsehair hat.]

1930 Nottingham Evening Post 24 July 3/2 The ‘Garbo’ hat is rather like the loose floppy brimmed hats we used to call ‘Vagabond’.

1958 Vogue Apr. 134 (caption) A grey flannel Garbo pull-on hat.

1963 N. Freeling Because of Cats vii. 105 Housewives..in playsuits and sunglasses and Garbo hats, languidly pushing energetic toddlers—also in Garbo hats—in go-carts.

2009 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 13 May She had on a black velvet Garbo hat and a suit with a fox collar.

II. Simple uses.

3. colloquial. Phrase to do (also pull) a Garbo: to act in an aloof or retiring manner; to seek seclusion.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seek seclusion [verb (intransitive)]

withdrawc1385

to renounce the worlda1425

retirea1538

sequester1627

secede1755

to do (also pull) a Garbo1932

1932 Port Arthur (Texas) News 17 Aug. 4/4 Ruth Chatterton had hoped to pull a Garbo and slip off the Bremen gangplank in the sotto voce manner.

1967 N. Marsh Death at Dolphin ii. 38 He loathes publicity and does a Garbo.

2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Feb. I would do a Garbo, shove in my earphones and catch up on 40 back episodes of In Our Time.

Derivatives

ˈGarboish adj. characteristic or reminiscent of Greta Garbo, esp. in terms of her appearance, style, or reclusive behaviour.Quot. 1928 shows a similar formation based on Greta Garbo + -ish.For quot. 1955 cf. 2.

ΚΠ

1928 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Jan. (Sunday Mag.) I tried being exotic and Greta Garboish, and that took a flop.]

1930 Columbia Spectator (Columbia Univ., N.Y.) 27 Oct. 2/3 A fine bit of acting which is Garboish in its depth.

1955 A. West Heritage vi. 255 She was wearing a Garboish hat that framed her entirely unmade-up face.

2005 Spectator (Nexis) 21 May His Garboish behaviour merely added to his mystique.

Garboˈesque adj. characteristic or reminiscent of Greta Garbo, esp. in terms of her appearance, style, or reclusive behaviour.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective]

reclusedc1443

quiet1507

withdrawing1576

secluse1597

reclusive1600

secluded1604

recluse1608

withdrawn?1615

sequestering1620

monastica1631

anchorite1639

solitousa1656

sequestered1658

snug1710

hermitish1812

anchoritish1823

umbratic1839

Garboesque1928

Garboic1937

1928 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Times 8 Sept. (Final ed.) 4/1 All the girls wear long bobs in the Garboesque manner.

1962 N. Freeling Love in Amsterdam ii. 74 Her features..had, indeed, the Garboesque cast that is exceedingly attractive.

2014 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 18 Jan. Retreating into a Garboesque silence.

ˈGarbo-like adj. resembling or characteristic of Greta Garbo, esp. in terms of her appearance, style, or reclusive behaviour.

ΚΠ

1932 Corsicana (Texas) Daily Sun 10 Oct. 10/1 Artificial lashes..shadow the eyes until they attain a Garbo like depth and beauty.

1976 Irish Times 20 May 8/3 The 56-year-old Rohmer..is legendary for his Garbo-like aloofness.

2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvi. 734 A dark woman in a Garbo-like foulard was sitting on a shelf, legs decussated, reading a book.

Garˈboic adj. rare that allows privacy or discretion.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective]

reclusedc1443

quiet1507

withdrawing1576

secluse1597

reclusive1600

secluded1604

recluse1608

withdrawn?1615

sequestering1620

monastica1631

anchorite1639

solitousa1656

sequestered1658

snug1710

hermitish1812

anchoritish1823

umbratic1839

Garboesque1928

Garboic1937

1937 Times 18 Oct. 15/4 We all fully understand the necessity for these Garboic tactics.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

garbon.²

Brit.

/ˈɡɑːbəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈɡɑrˌboʊ/, Australian English

/ˈɡʌːboʊ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: garbage n., -o suffix.

Etymology: < garb- (in garbage n.) + -o suffix.

colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian).

1. A person employed to collect garbage, esp. household waste, for disposal.

ΚΠ

1940 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 20 Mar. 1/4 Just Call Him Garbo... Erskineville Council has decided that it is ‘not nice’ for a man to be referred to as the ‘garbage man’.

1969 Sunday Mirror (Brisbane) 33 The garbos of Shrewsbury..are tired of wearing tattered jackets and trousers while emptying loads of old rubbish.

2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 May 4/2 Hundreds of tonnes of household rubbish was left kerbside in Brisbane yesterday after the city's garbos called a snap strike over wages and job security.

2. Garbage, rubbish, esp. household waste. Chiefly (and recorded earliest) as a modifier, as garbo man, garbo bin, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]

wrakea1350

outcastingc1350

rammel1370

rubble1376

mullockc1390

refusec1390

filtha1398

outcasta1398

chaff?a1400

rubbishc1400

wastec1430

drossc1440

raff?1440

rascal1440

murgeonc1450

wrack1472

gear1489

garblec1503

scowl1538

raffle1543

baggage1549

garbage1549

peltry1550

gubbins?1553

lastage1553

scruff1559

retraict1575

ross1577

riddings1584

ket1586

scouring1588

pelf1589

offal1598

rummage1598

dog's meat1606

retriment1615

spitling1620

recrement1622

mundungus1637

sordes1640

muskings1649

rejectament1654

offscouring1655

brat1656

relicts1687

offage1727

litter1730

rejectamenta1795

outwale1825

detritus1834

junk1836

wastements1843

croke1847–78

sculch1847

debris1851

rumble1854

flotsam1861

jetsam1861

pelt1880

offcasting1893

rubbishry1894

littering1897

muckings1898

wastage1898

dreck1905

bruck1929

crap1934

garbo1953

clobber1965

dooky1965

grot1971

tippings-

1953 Lithgow (New S. Wales) Mercury 17 Dec. 6/5 The metre of the garbage man's poetic effort varies in the different verses..and he signs himself appropriately as ‘The Garbo Man’.

1973 J. O'Grady Survival in Doghouse 12 He came back with a ten-gallon plastic garbo bin.

1999 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Perspectives section) 13 Monday morning.., the familiar and reassuring roar-crash-bang-thump-roar of the garbo truck would be heard.

2012 @SheliaTaylor 2 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 18 Apr. 2019) Anyone want an American flat mate in AUS? I clean, do dishes & will take out the garbo!

3. Something that is considered worthless, unimportant, or of very poor quality; trash.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless

hawc1000

turdc1275

fille1297

dusta1300

lead1303

skitc1330

naught1340

vanityc1340

wrakea1350

rushc1350

dirt1357

fly's wing1377

goose-wing1377

fartc1390

chaff?a1400

nutshella1400

shalec1400

yardc1400

wrack1472

pelfrya1529

trasha1529

dreg1531

trish-trash1542

alchemy1547

beggary?1548

rubbish1548

pelfa1555

chip1556

stark naught1562

paltry?1566

rubbish1566

riff-raff1570

bran1574

baggage1579

nihil1579

trush-trash1582

stubblea1591

tartar1590

garbage1592

bag of winda1599

a cracked or slit groat1600

kitchen stuff1600

tilta1603

nothing?1608

bauble1609

countera1616

a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620

buttermilk1630

dross1632

paltrement1641

cattle1643

bagatelle1647

nothingness1652

brimborion1653

stuff1670

flap-dragon1700

mud1706

caput mortuuma1711

snuff1778

twaddle1786

powder-post1790

traffic1828

junk1836

duffer1852

shice1859

punk1869

hogwash1870

cagmag1875

shit1890

tosh1892

tripe1895

dreck1905

schlock1906

cannon fodder1917

shite1928

skunk1929

crut1937

chickenshit1938

crud1943

Mickey Mouse1958

gick1959

garbo1978

turd1978

pants1994

1978 R. Wallace-Crabbe Feral Palit 24 Thought is rubbish, garbo, it has got no purpose.

1988 M. Munro Patter: Another Blast 26 Ah'll no be back here in a hurry. Ah've never et such garbo in ma puff.

2019 @LicoriceBunny 26 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 11 Oct. 2019) All the plastic stuff we had just fell apart because it was cheap garbo.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	garbo
释义	Garbon.¹ Brit. /ˈɡɑːbəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrboʊ/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Garbo. Etymology: < the name of Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 1905–90), Swedish-born U.S. film actress, who was renowned for her reclusive behaviour.The actress legally changed her surname to the more distinctive Garbo in 1923 on the advice of her mentor Mauritz Stiller, then Sweden's foremost film director, who had cast her as the female lead in his film Gösta Berlings Saga (1924). I. Compounds. 1. As a modifier, designating something characteristic or reminiscent of Greta Garbo, esp. in terms of her appearance, style, or reclusive behaviour. ΚΠ 1928 Vogue 24 Nov. 49/2 A complete understanding of the Garbo finger play, manicure technique, and make-up methods would do no one any harm. 1935 Washington Post 18 Sept. x3/2 The Countess dislikes the Garbo style of coiffure and keeps her hair cropped and shaped to her head. 1970 R. Johnston Black Camels ii. 27 You really are in your Garbo mood, Ben. 2001 Chesapeake Bay Mag. Oct. 10/1 When we're happily settled in some quiet Bay nook at anchor, you can safely assume we're having a Garbo moment. Ve vant to be alone. 2. As a modifier, designating a hat made from soft material with a wide floppy brim, esp. in Garbo hat.Quot. 1929 shows the full name Greta Garbo as a modifier in the same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > felt > with broad brim wide awake1837 kausia1850 terai hat1888 Borsalino1914 Garbo1930 1929 Bristol (Pa.) Courier 27 June 1/2 She wore a..Greta Garbo horsehair hat.] 1930 Nottingham Evening Post 24 July 3/2 The ‘Garbo’ hat is rather like the loose floppy brimmed hats we used to call ‘Vagabond’. 1958 Vogue Apr. 134 (caption) A grey flannel Garbo pull-on hat. 1963 N. Freeling Because of Cats vii. 105 Housewives..in playsuits and sunglasses and Garbo hats, languidly pushing energetic toddlers—also in Garbo hats—in go-carts. 2009 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 13 May She had on a black velvet Garbo hat and a suit with a fox collar. II. Simple uses. 3. colloquial. Phrase to do (also pull) a Garbo: to act in an aloof or retiring manner; to seek seclusion. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seek seclusion [verb (intransitive)] withdrawc1385 to renounce the worlda1425 retirea1538 sequester1627 secede1755 to do (also pull) a Garbo1932 1932 Port Arthur (Texas) News 17 Aug. 4/4 Ruth Chatterton had hoped to pull a Garbo and slip off the Bremen gangplank in the sotto voce manner. 1967 N. Marsh Death at Dolphin ii. 38 He loathes publicity and does a Garbo. 2019 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Feb. I would do a Garbo, shove in my earphones and catch up on 40 back episodes of In Our Time. Derivatives ˈGarboish adj. characteristic or reminiscent of Greta Garbo, esp. in terms of her appearance, style, or reclusive behaviour.Quot. 1928 shows a similar formation based on Greta Garbo + -ish.For quot. 1955 cf. 2. ΚΠ 1928 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Jan. (Sunday Mag.) I tried being exotic and Greta Garboish, and that took a flop.] 1930 Columbia Spectator (Columbia Univ., N.Y.) 27 Oct. 2/3 A fine bit of acting which is Garboish in its depth. 1955 A. West Heritage vi. 255 She was wearing a Garboish hat that framed her entirely unmade-up face. 2005 Spectator (Nexis) 21 May His Garboish behaviour merely added to his mystique. Garboˈesque adj. characteristic or reminiscent of Greta Garbo, esp. in terms of her appearance, style, or reclusive behaviour. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] reclusedc1443 quiet1507 withdrawing1576 secluse1597 reclusive1600 secluded1604 recluse1608 withdrawn?1615 sequestering1620 monastica1631 anchorite1639 solitousa1656 sequestered1658 snug1710 hermitish1812 anchoritish1823 umbratic1839 Garboesque1928 Garboic1937 1928 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Times 8 Sept. (Final ed.) 4/1 All the girls wear long bobs in the Garboesque manner. 1962 N. Freeling Love in Amsterdam ii. 74 Her features..had, indeed, the Garboesque cast that is exceedingly attractive. 2014 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 18 Jan. Retreating into a Garboesque silence. ˈGarbo-like adj. resembling or characteristic of Greta Garbo, esp. in terms of her appearance, style, or reclusive behaviour. ΚΠ 1932 Corsicana (Texas) Daily Sun 10 Oct. 10/1 Artificial lashes..shadow the eyes until they attain a Garbo like depth and beauty. 1976 Irish Times 20 May 8/3 The 56-year-old Rohmer..is legendary for his Garbo-like aloofness. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvi. 734 A dark woman in a Garbo-like foulard was sitting on a shelf, legs decussated, reading a book. Garˈboic adj. rare that allows privacy or discretion. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] reclusedc1443 quiet1507 withdrawing1576 secluse1597 reclusive1600 secluded1604 recluse1608 withdrawn?1615 sequestering1620 monastica1631 anchorite1639 solitousa1656 sequestered1658 snug1710 hermitish1812 anchoritish1823 umbratic1839 Garboesque1928 Garboic1937 1937 Times 18 Oct. 15/4 We all fully understand the necessity for these Garboic tactics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). garbon.² Brit. /ˈɡɑːbəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrˌboʊ/, Australian English /ˈɡʌːboʊ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: garbage n., -o suffix. Etymology: < garb- (in garbage n.) + -o suffix. colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian). 1. A person employed to collect garbage, esp. household waste, for disposal. ΚΠ 1940 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 20 Mar. 1/4 Just Call Him Garbo... Erskineville Council has decided that it is ‘not nice’ for a man to be referred to as the ‘garbage man’. 1969 Sunday Mirror (Brisbane) 33 The garbos of Shrewsbury..are tired of wearing tattered jackets and trousers while emptying loads of old rubbish. 2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 May 4/2 Hundreds of tonnes of household rubbish was left kerbside in Brisbane yesterday after the city's garbos called a snap strike over wages and job security. 2. Garbage, rubbish, esp. household waste. Chiefly (and recorded earliest) as a modifier, as garbo man, garbo bin, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] wrakea1350 outcastingc1350 rammel1370 rubble1376 mullockc1390 refusec1390 filtha1398 outcasta1398 chaff?a1400 rubbishc1400 wastec1430 drossc1440 raff?1440 rascal1440 murgeonc1450 wrack1472 gear1489 garblec1503 scowl1538 raffle1543 baggage1549 garbage1549 peltry1550 gubbins?1553 lastage1553 scruff1559 retraict1575 ross1577 riddings1584 ket1586 scouring1588 pelf1589 offal1598 rummage1598 dog's meat1606 retriment1615 spitling1620 recrement1622 mundungus1637 sordes1640 muskings1649 rejectament1654 offscouring1655 brat1656 relicts1687 offage1727 litter1730 rejectamenta1795 outwale1825 detritus1834 junk1836 wastements1843 croke1847–78 sculch1847 debris1851 rumble1854 flotsam1861 jetsam1861 pelt1880 offcasting1893 rubbishry1894 littering1897 muckings1898 wastage1898 dreck1905 bruck1929 crap1934 garbo1953 clobber1965 dooky1965 grot1971 tippings- 1953 Lithgow (New S. Wales) Mercury 17 Dec. 6/5 The metre of the garbage man's poetic effort varies in the different verses..and he signs himself appropriately as ‘The Garbo Man’. 1973 J. O'Grady Survival in Doghouse 12 He came back with a ten-gallon plastic garbo bin. 1999 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Perspectives section) 13 Monday morning.., the familiar and reassuring roar-crash-bang-thump-roar of the garbo truck would be heard. 2012 @SheliaTaylor 2 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 18 Apr. 2019) Anyone want an American flat mate in AUS? I clean, do dishes & will take out the garbo! 3. Something that is considered worthless, unimportant, or of very poor quality; trash. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless hawc1000 turdc1275 fille1297 dusta1300 lead1303 skitc1330 naught1340 vanityc1340 wrakea1350 rushc1350 dirt1357 fly's wing1377 goose-wing1377 fartc1390 chaff?a1400 nutshella1400 shalec1400 yardc1400 wrack1472 pelfrya1529 trasha1529 dreg1531 trish-trash1542 alchemy1547 beggary?1548 rubbish1548 pelfa1555 chip1556 stark naught1562 paltry?1566 rubbish1566 riff-raff1570 bran1574 baggage1579 nihil1579 trush-trash1582 stubblea1591 tartar1590 garbage1592 bag of winda1599 a cracked or slit groat1600 kitchen stuff1600 tilta1603 nothing?1608 bauble1609 countera1616 a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620 buttermilk1630 dross1632 paltrement1641 cattle1643 bagatelle1647 nothingness1652 brimborion1653 stuff1670 flap-dragon1700 mud1706 caput mortuuma1711 snuff1778 twaddle1786 powder-post1790 traffic1828 junk1836 duffer1852 shice1859 punk1869 hogwash1870 cagmag1875 shit1890 tosh1892 tripe1895 dreck1905 schlock1906 cannon fodder1917 shite1928 skunk1929 crut1937 chickenshit1938 crud1943 Mickey Mouse1958 gick1959 garbo1978 turd1978 pants1994 1978 R. Wallace-Crabbe Feral Palit 24 Thought is rubbish, garbo, it has got no purpose. 1988 M. Munro Patter: Another Blast 26 Ah'll no be back here in a hurry. Ah've never et such garbo in ma puff. 2019 @LicoriceBunny 26 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 11 Oct. 2019) All the plastic stuff we had just fell apart because it was cheap garbo. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1928n.²1940
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