‘garbageology’ | ‘garbageologist’: original meanings and early occurrences

25th Aug 2022.Reading time 11 minutes.

originally used in 1940 in reference to refuse collection—came to be used in 1970 in reference to the recycling of waste materials—then in 1971 in reference to the practice of looking through the garbage of celebrities

origin of the word ‘geek’

2nd Sep 2017.Reading time 10 minutes.

19th century, northern England—apparently a variant of ‘geck’, of Germanic origin, meaning ‘a fool’, ‘a dupe’, ‘an oaf’

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‘garbageology’ | ‘garbageologist’: original meanings and early occurrences

origin of the word ‘geek’