What does rubbage mean?
Rubbage means (now dialectal) Alternative form of rubbish..
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/ˈɹʌbɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
(now dialectal) Alternative form of rubbish..
E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, [...]
"And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?" / "No, sah—nuffn' else."
Simply because as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstoryshortener, he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubbages on to soil here.
CRUFT: that which magically amounds in the Clubroom just before you walk in to clean up. In other words, rubbage. / [September 2005 commentary]: [...] Rubbage is a rare term for rubbish, but I had heard it used growing up in New England.
I didn't want him to buy any more rubbage.
Use rubbage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rubbage means (now dialectal) Alternative form of rubbish..
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E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, [...]
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