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 Definitions for rubbish: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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['e]bris.
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What rubbish and what offal! --Shak.
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he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. --Dryden.
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Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Rubbish \Rub"bish\, a.
Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish;
trashy. --De Quincey.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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rubbish
n 1: worthless material that is to be disposed of [syn: trash,
scrap]
2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, tripe, trumpery,
trash, {wish-wash}, applesauce, codswallop]
v : attack strongly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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181 Moby Thesaurus words for "rubbish":
absurdity, afterglow, afterimage, amphigory, attack, babble,
babblement, bad-mouth, balance, balderdash, baloney, bibble-babble,
bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bosh, bric-a-brac, bull,
bullshit, bunk, bunkum, butt, butt end, candle ends, castaway,
castoff, cattle, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit, clamjamfry,
claptrap, clobber, crap, criticize, debris, derelict, destroy,
details, detritus, discard, dogie, double-talk, dregs,
dregs of society, drivel, drool, dross, dust, end, eyewash,
fag end, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, filings, flapdoodle, flotsam,
flotsam and jetsam, flummery, folderol, fossil, foundling,
fragments, froth, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon,
garbage, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gimcrackery,
gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, holdover, hooey, humbug,
husks, jabber, jargon, jetsam, jump all over, jump on, junk,
kelter, knickknackery, lagan, leavings, lees, leftovers, litter,
lumber, malarkey, minutiae, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit,
niaiserie, nonsense, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, offscum,
orphan, orts, pack of nonsense, palaver, pan, pap, parings,
peanuts, piffle, poppycock, prate, prattle, raff, rags, rant,
refuse, reject, rejects, relics, remainder, remains, remnant,
residue, residuum, rest, riffraff, rigamarole, rigmarole, roach,
rodomontade, rot, rubble, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scrap,
scraps, scum, shadow, shavings, shoddy, skimble-skamble, slop,
small beer, small change, sordes, straw, stubble,
stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, stump, survival, sweepings,
swinish multitude, tommyrot, trace, trash, trifles, trivia, truck,
trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, vermin,
vestige, waffling, waif, waifs and strays, waste, wastrel
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies,
literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions
lying due south from Boreaplas.
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