rubbish

[Rub·bish]

Rubbish is a synonym for garbage or trash. The word is more commonly used by speakers of British English than by speakers of American English.

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Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; d'82bris.

Noun
nonsensical talk or writing

Noun
worthless material that is to be disposed of

Verb
attack strongly

n.
Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.

a.
Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

Rubbish

Rub"bish , n. [OE. robows, robeux, rubble, originally an Old French plural from an assumed dim. of robe, probably in the sense of trash; cf. It. robaccia trash, roba stuff, goods, wares, robe. Thus, etymologically rubbish is the pl. of rubble. See Robe, and cf. Rubble.] Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; d'82bris.

What rubbish and what offal!

he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie.

Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.

Rubbish

Rub"bish , a. Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy. De Quincey.

Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; d'82bris.

Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

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Usage Examples

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.