[f. TRASH sb.1 + -Y.]
1. Of the nature of trash; rubbishy; worthless.
a. 1620. J. Dyke, Sel. Serm. (1640), 286. Such slovenly meate, such trashy meat, such bitter meat.
1693. G. Pooley, in Phil. Trans., XVII. 675. The … sparry, stony, and trashy parts rise up to the top.
1868. Athenæum, 14 March, 397/2. Trashy words set to trashy music.
1871. Carlyle, in Mrs. C’s Lett. (1883), I. 14. Reading the trashiest heap of novels.
2. Encumbered with trash, that is, with the withered growth of the previous season. U.S.
1905–6. Trade Catalogue (Cent. Dict. Supp.). The high curve of the beam prevents fouling in trashy land.
Hence Trashily adv.; Trashiness.
1836. J. Brown, Lett. (1907), 34. I have been … feeling miscellaneously and therefore trashily.
1857. Sat. Rev., 10 Jan., 37/2. A work of uniform trashiness.
1880. Vern. Lee, Stud. Italy, II. ii. 26. A grand thought … mixed and amalgamated with trashiness.
