garburator

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garburator

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Blend of garbage + incinerator. First attested in c. 1947 in the Winnipeg Tribune.

noun garburators · garbarator · garberator · Garberator

Canada, UK Synonym of garbage disposal. ‘[…] She burped and tried to jam the bottle into the waste-hole of the waste-disposal thing, the thingummy.’ ‘Garburator,’ said Pigs Trotter. ‘I think they’re called Garburators.’ ‘Garburator, that’s it. She tried to jam the bottle down the Garburator.[…]’
Similar: garbage disposal

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@misc{garburator_2026,
  title = {garburator},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/garburator},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}