rubbish

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She said the rubbish is a symbol for perestroika, when everything was broken, while the music inside the wagon represents dreams, hopes and memories.

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

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  • This practice continued here until the advent of the mass-produced rubbish which is called bread today. —  Cargo of Eagles - Margery Allingham - Campion 21: 1968
  • If Aishwarya wants to go through this rubbish, that is entirely her choice. —  thecookscottage
  • Because the sermons given by the priests then seemed to be completely useless and rubbish, the term transformed to one of its modern usages. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • She said the rubbish is a symbol for perestroika, when everything was broken, while the music inside the wagon represents dreams, hopes and memories. —  The St. Petersburg Times
  • Filling baskets full of rubbish was his work, his method of earning a living, and it mattered nothing to him whether the rubbish was culled from the golden sand of the most wonderful valley in the world, or thrown out of the filthy ashbins in the native city of Cairo. —  There was a King in Egypt
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trash ·  debris ·  junk ·  refuse ·  dirt ·  nonsense ·  filth ·  dung ·  weed ·  lumber ·  straw ·  litter
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English robishe.

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  1. Formerly or dial. also rubbidge, rubbage; early modern English rubyes, also rubbrysshe, robrisshe (with intrusive r, prob. due to confusion with similar forms of rubric); from Middle English *robous, robows, *robeux (Middle Latin rubbosa), from Old French robous, robouse, *robeux, rubbish, plural of *robel (later English rubble), diminutive of robe, robbe, rubbish, trash, = Old Italian roba, robba, Italian roba, rubbish, trash, literally ‘spoil’ (later robaccia, old goods, trifles, trash, rubbish, robiccia, trifles, rubbish): see robe, rob, rubble. Not connected with rub.
 

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