English
hot garbage
From hot (“radioactive”) + garbage (“waste”).
Formed from hot ‘radioactive’ + garbage ‘waste’
Proto-Indo-European *keHy- ‘to heat; to become hot’
Proto-Germanic *haitaz ‘hot’
Proto-West Germanic *hait
Old English hāt ‘hot’
Middle English hot
English hot
Frankish *garwijan ‘to make ready’
Old French garber ‘to refine, make neat or clean’
Middle English garbage ‘the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”,…’
English garbage
The story
Originally a term for radioactive materials, it evolved as a descriptor for anything highly undesirable.
Today it means
noun Nuclear waste.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hot garbage