单词 | garbology |
释义 | garbologyn. 1. humorous. Silly terminology; (more generally) nonsense, rubbish. rare. ΚΠ 1944 Plainfield (New Jersey) Courier-News 21 Aug. 2/6 ‘People we could easily do without’ are listed..by the Texas Christian University student newspaper, The Skiff, in the following garbology. 2007 Mordialloc Chelsea Leader (Victoria, Austral.) (Nexis) 5 Sept. 20 Regarding the article Ambulance response times on target... Quite frankly, what a load of garbology! 2. The collection of refuse from homes and businesses for disposal; garbage collection. Also: the processing, management, and treatment of refuse. Frequently humorous. ΚΠ 1965 Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, N.Y.) 9 Oct. 5 a (headline) [Of a rubbish removal company.] They're garbology experts. 1974 Daily News (N.Y.) 25 Mar. (New Jersey ed.) jl7/4 Advances in ‘garbology’..could reduce by as much as 60% or 70% the 35 million pounds of garbage and trash produced by Jerseyans daily. 2016 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News (Nexis) 25 Dec. m3 You don't have to have a college degree in garbology to manage your household trash properly. 3. The study of a community or society through systematic analysis of what is thrown away as garbage; the branch of anthropology or archaeology dealing with this. Also (and in earliest use): the practice of looking through the garbage of celebrities, politicians, etc., in search of compromising or incriminating material. Cf. garbageology n.In anthropology and archaeology, chiefly with reference to the work of William L. Rathje (1945–2012), U.S. archaeologist, whose ‘Garbage Project’, instituted in 1973, sought to study contemporary American society through analysis of its garbage. ΘΚΠ the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > anthropology > cultural or social ethography1788 symbolics1850 agriology1878 social anthropology1881 culturology1920 cultural anthropology1938 psychographics1968 garbology1972 1972 A. J. Weberman Press Release 5 Nov. in academia.edu (accessed 30 Sept. 2019) After a brief rap on the how and why of garbology A.J. will distribute xeroxed copies of ‘the evidence’. 1982 Times 12 Feb. 17/1 I'm always looking for truth about mankind and its creations, says William Rathje, a professor of garbology, with a Ph.D in anthropology. Rathje and his team search the garbage dumps of the United States. 2010 Vigiliae Christianae 64 229 When applied to antiquity, the dirty lens of garbology allows us to view practices that..are not explicit in the written record. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1944 |
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