Rubbish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Rubbish is a noun meaning (by extension, chiefly Commonwealth) An item, or items, of low quality.
Meaning
(by extension, chiefly Commonwealth) An item, or items, of low quality.
More Meanings
- (by extension, chiefly Commonwealth) Nonsense.
- Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.
- Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!
- (transitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.
- (chiefly Commonwealth) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
- (archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.
Example Sentences
Goats are adventurous eaters. They nose around in rubbish looking for scraps of food.
The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
Simply because as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstoryshortener, he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubbages on to soil here.
What traſh is Rome? / What Rubbiſh and what Offall? when it ſerues / For the baſe matter, to illuminate / So vile a thing as Cæsar.
Word Forms
- rubbishes
- rubbage
- rubbisher
- rubbishest
- rubbishing
- rubbished
Synonyms for rubbish
Depending on context, synonyms include cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trash, trumpery, folderol, wish-wash, tripe, applesauce.
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