Trashy

Definition: Trashy

Trashy

Adjective

1. Cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise".

2. Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trashy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Trashy \Trash"y\, adjective. [Comparative Trashier; superlative Trashiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Trashy

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Unmeaningness

Trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.

Crosswords: Trashy

There's a trashy book written on very line of her face (Girl in Gold Boots; writing credit: Art Names; Leighton J. Peatman)

Without a heart I can never really know what it would be like to love someone, or ever really understand trashy novels (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Barbara A. Oliver)

Anal Trashy Ass (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Theater & Movies

• Trashy Ladies of Wrestling (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Oscar's Trashy Songs (Blister) (reference)

• Sesame Street: Oscar's Trashy Songs (reference)

• Trashy Redneck [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "trashy": trashy art ♦ trashy novel ♦ trashy product. Additional references.

Ending with "trashy": much-improved-but-still-trashy.

Albanian

i pavlerë (bad, barren, base, catchpenny, chaffy, cheap, crummy, dud, expendable, fiddling, footling, frivolous, futile, jejune, measly, nugatory, paltry, peddling, tawdry, threepenny, vain, valueless, worthless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملىء بالقمامة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ненужен (needless, supernumerary, uncalled for, unnecessary), безполезен (baubling, bootless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, inutile, naught, needless, no good, nugatory, otiose, pointless, sorry, superfluous, unavailing, unhelpful, up the spout, useless, vain, void, worthless), безплоден (abortive, arid, fruitless, infertile, still-born, unfruitful, vain), долнокачествен (crummy, cut rate, gross, hedge, inferior, leaden, low-grade, pinchbeck, ropy, scrubby, sleazy, slim, third class, tinpot), долнопробен (cheap, hedge, seedy, shady). (various references)

Czech

kýèovitý (meretricious, slushy), brakový (second rate), bezcenný (frippery, gimcrack, nugatory, trifling, valueless, worthless). (various references)

Farsi 

مهمل (Nonsense, Preposterous, Trash, Waggish), مزخرف (Absurd, Baloney, Ludicrous, Nonsense, Nonsensical, Slag, Tawdry), چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Corny, Crap, Hokum, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Shenanigan, Silly, Stuff, Unmeaning, Windy), جفنگ (Rigmarole), بیهوده (Idle, Impracticable, Ineffective, Ineffectual, Jejune, Rodomontade, Unfruitful, Vain). (various references)

Finnish

roskakirjallisuus (garbage, trashy literature). (various references)

French

sale, moche, de camelote. (various references)

German

wertlos (dud, frivolous, hollow, meritless, nugatory, of no value, paltry, rubbishy, valueless, vile, worthless, worthlessly), kitschige, kitschig (corny, kitschy, mawkish, novelettish, sentimentally, shoddily, slushy, soppy, tawdrily, tawdry). (various references)

Greek 

άχρηστοσ (bootless, drossy, dud, has been, needless, ne'er do well, otiose, stuff, useless, waste, worthless), τιποτένιοσ (chaffy, measly, paltry, petty, piddling, scamp, scummy, trifling, two-penny, worthless). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא אשפ�", חסר ערך (fiddling, junk, light, paltry, picayune, pip squeak, rubbishy, two bit, twopenny half penny, vain, valueless, worthless). (various references)

Hungarian

hitvány (bloody, caddish, dastardly, despicable, grovelling, mean, naught, perfidious, pitiable, punk, raffish, rascally, rinky-dink, rubbishy, scummy, scurvied, scurvy, shoddy, skunk, sordid, squalid, tin-pot, vile, worthless). (various references)

Manx

trustyragh (dirty, mucky, rubbishy), trouisagh (dowdy, slatternly). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashytray.(various references)

Portuguese

sem valor (bum, chaffy, hollow, inconsiderable, naught, nugatory, paltry, peddling, picayune, trifling, useless, vain, valueless, waste, worthless), inferior (bad, below, blanket, bottom, brutish, catchpenny, cheap, coarse, common, corny, currish, dependant, dependent, ground floor, hereinafter, inelaborate, inferior, less, lesser, low, mean, menial, minor, nether, poor, subordinate, under, undermost, unequal, wishy-washy), inútil (abortive, bootless, castaway, empty, fruitless, futile, good-for-nothing, naught, needless, no-go, nugatory, purposeless, rat-trap, sterile, superfluous, supervacaneous, unavailable, unavailing, unnecessary, unproductive, unprofitable, useless, vain, worthless), desprezível (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, despicable, lily-livered, little, mean, negligible, paltry, peddling, picayune, pitiable, reptile, scurvy, unworthy, worthless). (various references)

Romanian

fãrã valoare (cheap, frothy, good for nothing, halfpenny, indifferent, mean, measly, odd trifles, pale, piffling, simple, threepenny, trivial, trumpery, useless, void, worthless). (various references)

Russian 

дрянной (cheesy, crappy, lousy, rubbishy, shoddy, twopenny-halfpenny). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nikakav (needy, no, none, pelting, poor), loš (abominable, bad, gross, lousy, mean, miserable, poor, refuse, shoddy, vile). (various references)

Spanish

de pacotilla (rubbishy, shoddy), de mala calidad (gimcrack), baladí (banal, negligible, nugatory, picayune, trivial). (various references)

Swedish

usel (abject, abysmal, bad, base, bum, cheesy, dastardly, execrable, ignoble, low, mean, miserable, paltry, pitiful, poor, shoddy, tacky, vile, worthless, wretched), skräp-. (various references)

Turkish

değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, insignificant, jerkwater, measly, milk and water, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trivial, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), beş para etmez (a dime a dozen, bum, good for nothing, not worth a button, not worth a cent, not worth a damn, not worth a doit, not worth a farthing, not worth a fig, not worth a penny, not worth a rap, not worth a rush, tinpot, worthless). (various references)

Ukrainian

паскудний (abject, bawdy, cheesy, nasty, obscene, scald, vile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

t�"i (deplorable, doggerel, foul, illy, poor, poorly, punk, rotten, third-rate, threepenny, wretched), vô giá trị (bum, gewgaw, nude, nugatory, rotten, scrubby, stramineous, straw, two-bit, waste), không ra gì. (various references)

Misspellings

"Trashy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arashi, Etruschi, irishy, krasny, Krasnyy, rashy, tachy, tarhi, trahie, transh, Trassey, treash, tresh, trisy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: artsy, harts, hasty, rhyta, satyr, stray, tahrs, trash, trays.

-2 letters: arts, arty, ashy, hart, hast, hats, hays, rash, rath, rats, rays, ryas, shay, star, stay, tahr, tars, tray, tsar.

-3 letters: ars, art, ash, ays, has, hat, hay, rah, ras, rat, ray, rya, sat, say, sha, shy, sty, tar, tas, thy, try, yah, yar.

+1 letter: ashtray, starchy, swarthy.

+2 letters: ashtrays, hydrants, hydrates, hysteria, scratchy, thruways, trashily, yachters.

+3 letters: arythmias, birthdays, erythemas, eurybaths, forsythia, hairstyle, hydranths, hydrators, hysterias, lathyrism, overhasty, seaworthy, starchily, trachytes, yahrzeits.

+4 letters: anhydrites, archetypes, athrocytes, dehydrates, dithyrambs, dysarthria, forsythias, hairstyles, hydrations, hysterical, labyrinths, lathyrisms, mythmakers, psychiatry, rehydrates, saprophyte, satyagraha, scratchily, shrievalty, soothsayer, straightly, strathspey, switchyard, throwaways, thyratrons, thysanuran, typographs.