wastepaper basket

English

Noun

wastepaper basket (plural wastepaper baskets)

A small open container for discarded paper etc; a wastebasket.

Synonyms

wagger-pagger-bagger (slang, humorous, dated)
wastebasket
wastebin
wastepaper bin

Translations

small open container for discarded paper

Chinese:
Mandarin: 廢紙簍, 废纸篓 (fèizhǐlǒu), 紙簍 (zh), 纸篓 (zh) (zhǐlǒu)
Danish: affaldskurv c (especially in a public outdoors place)
Finnish: roskakori (fi)
French: corbeille à papiers (fr) f
German: Papierkorb (de) m
Hungarian: papírkosár (hu)
Irish: ciseán páipéir m
Italian: cestino della carta straccia m

Japanese: くずかご (kuzukago)
Korean: 휴지통 (ko) (hyujitong)
Macedonian: ко́рпа за харти́ени отпа́доци f (kórpa za hartíeni otpádoci)
Romanian: coș (ro) n, coș de hârtii n
Russian: корзи́на для бума́г f (korzína dlja bumág)
Swedish: papperskorg (sv) c, rundarkiv n
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: གད་སྙིགས་བླུག་ས (gad snyigs blug sa)

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