Colin vs Garbage - What's the difference?
colin | garbage |
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* 1992 Howard B. Means, Colin Powell , Donald J. Fine (1992), ISBN 1556113358, page 49:
The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
Food waste material of any kind.
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
A place or receptacle for waste material.
Nonsense; gibberish.
(often, attributively) Something or someone worthless.
* 2009 , David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips , ISBN 9780967851488,
(obsolete) To eviscerate.
* 1674 , , ''The Passenger Pigeon , 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
As nouns the difference between colin and garbage
is that colin is hake, coalfish while garbage is the bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.As a verb garbage is
(obsolete) to eviscerate.colin
English
Alternative forms
* CollinProper noun
(en-proper noun) ( plural Colins )- That iolly shepheard, which there piped, was / Poore Colin' Clout (who knowes not ' Colin Clout?)
- "My parents," Powell wrote, "were British subjects, and they named me Colin' (KAH-lin). Being British, they knew very well how the name was supposed to be pronounced. But when I was a young boy, there was a famous American World War II hero whose name became very popular in the streets of New York City. He was Capt. ' Colin P. Kelly Jr. He was called KOH-lin. My friends in the streets of the South Bronx, who heard Captain Kelly's name pronounced in the radio and by their parents and other adults, began to refer to me by the same pronunciation.
Usage notes
* Popular given name in the U.K. in the mid-twentieth century.garbage
English
Alternative forms
* garbidgeNoun
(-)- Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage .
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- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
Synonyms
* junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste * See alsoAntonyms
* artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuableDerived terms
* garbage bag * garbage bin * garbage can * garbage collect * garbage collector * garbage collection * garbage disposal * garbage dump * * garbage man * garbage mitt * garbage scow * garbage time * garbage truck * garbo * garbologistVerb
(garbag)- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.