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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Refuse; garbage.
  2. n. Worthless material.
  3. n. Foolish discourse; nonsense.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Waste, broken, or worn-out material; useless fragments or remains collectively, especially of stone; refuse in general.
  2. n. Any useless or worthless stuff; that which serves no good purpose, or is fit only to be thrown away; trash; trumpery; litter: used of both material and immaterial things.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.
  2. interj. Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
  3. interj. Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
  4. n. Australia, New Zealand, UK Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
  5. n. Nonsense.
  6. v. To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris.
  2. adj. Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. worthless material that is to be disposed of
  2. v. attack strongly
  3. n. nonsensical talk or writing

Etymologies

  1. Anglo-Norman rubouses, of Unknown origin; presumably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raub- (“to break”) (from whence rob, via meaning “plunder, destroy”). Related to rubble. In verb sense “to criticize”, attested 1953 in Australian and New Zealand slang. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English robishe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I wouldn't care so much except that in the eyes of many this rubbish is the supposed figurehead of all forward-thinking science fiction, and that is patently false.”

    Is he dead Jim?

  • “And that which you call rubbish seems to have caught the ear of all Europe.”

    A Son of the Immortals

  • “Yes, I did take some what you call rubbish, and did discover Maister Mishdigoat's own monumentsh --- It's like dat he meant I should be his heirs --- so it would not be civility in me not to come mineself for mine inheritance. '”

    The Antiquary

  • “I have bought what happened to come in my way at show or auction; I have retained what came in as part of the _undescribed_ portion of miscellaneous auction lots; I have received a few from friends who found them among what they called their rubbish; and I have preserved books sent to me for review.”

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)

  • “Yes, I did take some what you call rubbish, and did discover Maister Mishdigoat's own monumentsh --”

    The Antiquary — Volume 02

  • “Yes, I did take some what you call rubbish, and did discover”

    The Antiquary

  • “The Mail reports that: Millions of voters are to be deprived of their say over how their rubbish is collected.”

    Democracy Labour style

  • “Robo calls of rubbish from a bitter old robber baron.”

    McCain uses the phone to target colleagues

  • “Arguing that Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K Hamilton are rubbish is like kicing puppies.”

    MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa)

  • “Biodegradable rubbish is burned to facilitate quick disintegration.”

    More Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. trash
  1. ruins
  1. débris
  1. trashy
  1. nonsense
  1. bollocks
  1. bullshit

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. lash out
  1. snipe
  1. assault
  1. round
  1. assail
  1. attack
  1. drivel
  1. garbage

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. trash
  2. débris
  3. junk
  4. refuse
  1. dirt
  2. nonsense
  3. filth
  4. dung
  1. weed
  2. lumber
  3. straw
  4. litter
  1. waste
  2. dross
  3. ash
  4. gravel
  1. sawdust
  2. wreckage
  3. scrap
  4. shit
  1. clay
  2. crap

reverse dictionary (119)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. junk
  2. litter
  3. débris
  4. dust
  5. rammel
  6. rubbage
  7. rubbidge
  8. rubbishy
  9. laystall
  10. rubbish
  11. lorrie
  12. dustbin
  13. litterbin
  14. cultch
  15. cobweb
  16. colluvies
  17. dumping-boat
  18. garbling
  19. moored
  20. offage
  21. toom
  22. trashery
  23. trashy
  1. wailer
  2. burrow
  3. gin block
  4. monkey-wheel
  5. pelf
  6. poppycock
  7. red
  8. riffraff
  9. rubbish-heap
  10. ruderal
  11. ruderary
  12. saltcat
  13. sculsh
  14. shruff
  15. skulduddery
  16. stowing
  17. street-orderly
  18. barrel-cart
  19. clamjamfry
  20. colder
  21. crapola
  22. kea
  23. codswallop
  1. ashcan
  2. attle
  3. barrow
  4. garble
  5. gear
  6. ash-pit
  7. bash
  8. briss
  9. brockle
  10. burring
  11. chaffless
  12. culch
  13. dumping-ground
  14. dustcart
  15. elding
  16. fudge
  17. offal
  18. tripe
  19. trumpery
  20. raffle
  21. trash barrel
  22. trash bin
  23. trash can
  1. wastebasket
  2. waste-paper basket
  3. wastebin
  4. wastepaper basket
  5. accumulation
  6. tip
  7. trash
  8. rubbishry
  9. clean
  10. truck
  11. refuse
  12. humbug
  13. swill
  14. garbage
  15. garbage can
  16. litter basket
  17. litter-basket
  18. littered
  19. ash bin
  20. ash-bin
  21. ashbin
  22. circular file
  23. cluttered
  1. mull
  2. mullock
  3. pelfray
  4. shoad
  5. sluiceway
  6. stope
  7. stowboard
  8. stull
  9. sweepings
  10. trade
  11. baggage
  12. bonfire
  13. bury
  14. dump
  15. dustman
  16. gaging
  17. mountain
  18. parcel
  19. raff
  20. ruck
  21. rummage
  22. shoot
  23. stuff
  1. sweeping
  2. kibosh
  3. trunk
  4. waste

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