rubbage

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"And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?"

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  • Because its lowered so much, the stock wheel size doest fit - extreme rubbage on the suspension. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • The two ladies seem to have too much to say which end up being a repeat of someone else's comments or just plain rubbage. —  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
  • So to the barn they all took their way The barn was large and roomy, quite unused except by the children, who kept all their pets and a good deal of what Andrew the gardener called "rubbage" there. —  Penelope and the Others Story of Five Country Children
  • And a good riddance to bad rubbage, I say XXI Hughey Blake, long-haired, barefooted and freckled, hung about the door of Nancy's cabin, where she sat with her little girl playing in the weedy turf at her foot. —  The Leatherwood God
  • "Is that what you live on I couldn' git nuffn else," he says Why, how long you been on the island, Jim I come heah de night arter you's killed What, all that time Yes--indeedy And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat No, sah--nuffn else Well, you must be most starved, ain't you I reck'n I could eat a hoss. —  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10
 

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