junk
n. uncountablen. old things that have little value or are no longer useful. You might keep it in a garage or throw it away because it is broken or unwanted.
n. discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value. Often used collectively to describe a cluttered accumulation of miscellaneous items.
I need to clear all this junk out of the garage.
The basement was filled with old newspapers, broken toys, and other junk that had gathered over the decades.
While one person might see a pile of rusted metal as mere junk, a creative sculptor often finds the raw materials for a masterpiece within the scrap.
From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".
From Portuguese junco with reinforcement from Dutch jonk, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, جوڠ, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer d₂luuŋ ~ d₂luŋ ~ d₂luəŋ ~ d₂ləŋ (“boat”). Doublet of djong.