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rubbishnoun [ U ] uk

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B1 UK (US garbage, trash) waste material or things that are no longer wanted or needed: I forgot to put the rubbish out this morning. Put the empty box in the rubbish bin. Take the old furniture to the rubbish dump.

B2 mainly UK informal something that you think is very low quality or not true: The film was rubbish. His ideas are a load of (old) rubbish.

More examplesFewer examplesResidents have called for a clean-up campaign to keep their streets free from rubbish.It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.Look at all this rubbish on the floor.Tie up the top of the bag so the rubbish doesn't fall out.

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Rubbish and waste

anti-litter

anti-littering

debris

dejunk

dejunking

gubbins

high-level waste

influent

jetsam

jumble

litter

recycle

scrap

shavings

skip diving

slag

spoil

tat

transfer station

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rubbishverb [ T ] UK informal uk

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to criticize something: Why does everyone rubbish my ideas?

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Disapproving & criticizing

anathematize

animadversion

aspersion

backbite

barrel

belabour

boo

criticism

disapprobation

excoriate

low blow

mordacious

mordancy

nitpicker

not hold with something

pile

potshot

slam

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rubbishadjective UK informal uk

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/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/ us

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completely without skill at a particular activity: I'm rubbish at arithmetic. You're a rubbish dancer.

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bad at somethingbad atI was overweight and bad at sport.hopelessI’m completely hopeless in the kitchen.uselessUK He’s useless at maths.rubbishUK She’s a pretty rubbish singer, really.incompetentThe rules have made it hard to remove incompetent teachers.

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Inexperienced (of people)

armchair

be new to this game idiom

be wet behind the ears idiom

dewy-eyed

fledgling

innocency

innocent

innocently

maladroitly

new

uninformed

uninitiated

unrefined

unscholarly

unseasoned

untrained

untravelled

untutored

unversed

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Inability and awkwardness

rubbishexclamation UK informal uk/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/ us/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/

used for saying that you do not agree with what someone has said: "Tomato plants are very difficult to grow." "Rubbish, they're easy to grow!"

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aw shucks

eat your heart out idiom

figure

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more power to your elbow! idiom

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no sir idiom

period

small wonder idiom

the rest is history idiom

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worthless and unwanted things or ideas; garbage: All that was left of the property was a pile of rubbish nine feet high. I can’t believe they broadcast such rubbish.

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Examples of rubbish

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Given its relatively high artefact content, any redeposition was very probably of rubbish from within the fort itself.

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And energy recovered from the heterogeneous fuel of rubbish struggles to be economically competitive.

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Intermediary waste collection points were almost always covered, and the only operational rubbish tip was located offshore.

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Put another way, primary deposits such as floors and uncontaminated rubbish middens are comparatively rare.

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Serious writers don't engage in such rubbish, she decides.

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They dislike sunlight and hide amongst dry straw and other rubbish in the fields.

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Until the 1910s, the rubbish carts did not travel far.

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One was cleared of dung, another of rubbish, another was accessed via a new staircase, another was hired for storing wine.

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Crowded housing, the sewage system, and such dubious practices as spitting and throwing rubbish out of high-rise apartment buildings came under the spotlight.

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Some visited second-hand shops or searched rubbish skips and acquired rugs, chairs, pictures, crockery and ornaments.

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Technocrats promoted the destructor as the most effective means of neutralizing the public health danger created by decaying rubbish.

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There was no system for removal of rubbish such as disposable nappies left by the pickers.

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Experts argued that reuse and utilization of rubbish were ineffective and unhygienic methods of waste disposal.

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Overture, fashionable rubbish with the last bit coining first.

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Consequently, in the absence of sufficient amounts of rubbish, the destructor was shut down for brief periods; on resumption, combustion was imperfect until temperatures rose.

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absolute rubbishI hear his former parliamentary private secretary telling me that that is absolute rubbish.

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complete rubbishAgainst that criterion, the proposition in the amendment is complete rubbish.

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load of rubbishFrankly, all the newspapers that are currently being produced are a load of rubbish, and that industry is going electronic anyway.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

垃圾, 廢棄物, 粗製濫造的東西，劣質的東西…

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垃圾, 废弃物, 粗制滥造的东西，劣质的东西…

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ごみ, くず, くだらないもの…

çöp, süprüntü, saçma…

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escombraries, porqueria, bestieses…

vuilnis, onzin…

கழிவுப்பொருட்கள் அல்லது இனி விரும்பப்படாத அல்லது தேவைப்படாத விஷயங்கள், மிகக் குறைந்த தரம் அல்லது உண்மை இல்லை என்று நீங்கள் நினைக்கும் ஒன்று…

कचरा, कूड़ा, अपशिष्ट सामग्री या अनावश्यक चीज़ें…

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der Abfall, Abfall…, der Blödsinn…

tull [neuter], søppel [masculine-neuter], søppel…

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мотлох, нісенітниця…

мусор, чепуха, дрянь…

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rác, những điều vô nghĩa…

śmieci, bzdury, bzdura…

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spazzatura, immondizia, rifiuti…

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Britannica Dictionary definition of RUBBISH

[noncount]

things that are no longer useful or wanted and that have been thrown out

trash

Please, pick the rubbish up off the ground.

(Brit) We saw a rat run through the rubbish tip/dump. [=(US) garbage dump; an area of land where people can dump their rubbish]

(chiefly Brit) Put the potato peels in the rubbish bin. [=(US) garbage can, (chiefly US) trash can]

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chiefly British, informal

words or ideas that are foolish or untrue

I think what he says is absolute rubbish!

That's (a load of) rubbish! I didn't cheat on the test.

“I'm sorry, but I had to do it.” “Rubbish!”

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informal

something that is worthless, unimportant, or of poor quality

The food at that restaurant is complete rubbish.

I can't believe you waste your time reading that rubbish. [=garbage]

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rubbishes;

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rubbishes;

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Britannica Dictionary definition of RUBBISH

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to severely criticize (someone or something)

The critics rubbished [=(US) trashed] her new book.

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Definition of rubbish verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rubbish verb /ˈrʌbɪʃ/ /ˈrʌbɪʃ/(British English, informal) (North American English trash)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they rubbish /ˈrʌbɪʃ/ /ˈrʌbɪʃ/ he / she / it rubbishes /ˈrʌbɪʃɪz/ /ˈrʌbɪʃɪz/ past simple rubbished /ˈrʌbɪʃt/ /ˈrʌbɪʃt/ past participle rubbished /ˈrʌbɪʃt/ /ˈrʌbɪʃt/ -ing form rubbishing /ˈrʌbɪʃɪŋ/ /ˈrʌbɪʃɪŋ/

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rubbish somebody/something to criticize somebody/something severely or treat them as though they are of no valueThe book was rubbished by the critics.He rubbished all my ideas, saying they were impractical.Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French rubbous; perhaps related to Old French robe ‘spoils’; compare with rubble. The change in the ending was due to association with -ish. The verb (1950s) was originally Australian and New Zealand slang.

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Definition of rubbish noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rubbish noun /ˈrʌbɪʃ/ /ˈrʌbɪʃ/[uncountable]

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(especially British English) things that you throw away because you no longer want or need thema rubbish bag/bina rubbish dump/heap/tip The streets were littered with rubbish.garden/household rubbishThe rubbish is collected on Tuesdays.Weeks have gone by without a rubbish collection, and the stench is terrible. He is supporting a campaign to encourage people to recycle their rubbish. British/American rubbish / garbage / trash / refuserubbish / garbage / trash / refuseRubbish is the usual word in British English for the things that you throw away because you no longer want or need them. Garbage and trash are both used in North American English. Inside the home, garbage tends to mean waste food and other wet material, while trash is paper, card and dry material.In British English, you put your rubbish in a dustbin in the street to be collected by the dustmen. In North American English, your garbage and trash goes in a garbage can/trashcan in the street and is collected by garbage men/collectors.Refuse is a formal word and is used in both British English and North American English. Refuse collector is the formal word for a dustman or garbage collector.Wordfinderdraindumpeffluentexhaustfly-tipincineratorlandfillrubbishsewagewasteCollocations The environmentThe environmentEnvironmental damagecause/contribute to climate change/global warmingproduce pollution/CO2/greenhouse (gas) emissionsdamage/destroy the environment/a marine ecosystem/the ozone layer/coral reefsdegrade ecosystems/habitats/the environmentharm the environment/wildlife/marine lifethreaten natural habitats/coastal ecosystems/a species with extinctiondeplete natural resources/the ozone layerpollute rivers and lakes/waterways/the air/the atmosphere/the environment/oceanscontaminate groundwater/the soil/food/cropslog forests/rainforests/treesProtecting the environmentaddress/combat/tackle the threat/effects/impact of climate changefight/take action on/reduce/stop global warminglimit/curb/control air/water/atmospheric/environmental pollutioncut/reduce pollution/greenhouse gas emissionsoffset carbon/CO2 emissionsreduce (the size of) your carbon footprintachieve/promote sustainable developmentpreserve/conserve biodiversity/natural resourcesprotect endangered species/a coastal ecosystemprevent/stop soil erosion/overfishing/massive deforestation/damage to ecosystemsraise awareness of environmental issuessave the planet/the rainforests/an endangered speciesEnergy and resourcesconserve/save/consume/waste energymanage/exploit/be rich in natural resourcesdump/dispose of hazardous/toxic/nuclear wastedispose of/throw away litter/(especially British English) rubbish/(especially North American English) garbage/(North American English) trash/sewageuse/be made from recycled/recyclable/biodegradable materialrecycle bottles/packaging/paper/plastic/wastepromote/encourage recycling/sustainable development/the use of renewable energydevelop/invest in/promote renewable energyreduce your dependence/reliance on fossil fuelsget/obtain/generate/produce electricity from wind, solar and wave power/renewable sourcesbuild/develop a (50-megawatt/offshore) wind farminstall/be fitted with/be powered by solar panels see also garbage, trashExtra ExamplesHe's clearing rubbish out of the attic.I forgot to put the rubbish out last night.Someone had dumped their rubbish by the road.There was rubbish strewn around everywhere.Throw the rubbish in the bin.Over a third of British household rubbish is packaging.About three million tonnes of rubbish will be thrown away.Topics The environmenta2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivedomestichouseholdgarden…… of rubbishbagpiletons…verb + rubbishput outcollectremove…rubbish + verbdecayrotrubbish + nounbagbinskip…See full entry

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(British English, informal) (also used as an adjective) something that you think is of poor qualityI thought the play was rubbish!The film was absolute/complete rubbish.Do we have to listen to this rubbish music?They said I was a rubbish boss.Extra ExamplesWe had some rubbish teachers at school.I was told their new album's complete rubbish.The antique shop was just full of old rubbish.Many critics see the paintings as worthless rubbish.Why are you eating such rubbish?Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveabsolutecompletetotal…verb + rubbishtalkprepositionrubbish aboutphrasesa load of rubbishwhat rubbish!See full entry

(British English, informal) comments, ideas, etc. that you think are stupid or wrong synonym nonsenseRubbish! You're not fat.You're talking a load of rubbish.It's not rubbish—it's true!He described the claims as utter rubbish and nonsense.Extra ExamplesWhat he said was just a load of old rubbish.the usual rubbish about his undiscovered talentsShe's always talking rubbish.That suggestion's absolute rubbish.Then we were told a lot of rubbish about ‘leadership’ and ‘bonding’.Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveabsolutecompletetotal…verb + rubbishtalkprepositionrubbish aboutphrasesa load of rubbishwhat rubbish!See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French rubbous; perhaps related to Old French robe ‘spoils’; compare with rubble. The change in the ending was due to association with -ish. The verb (1950s) was originally Australian and New Zealand slang.See rubbish in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee rubbish in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic EnglishCheck pronunciation:

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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024How to use rubbish in a sentencePlastic rubbish in the oceans also ensnares birds, turtles and other wildlife.Let’s learn about plastic pollution | Maria Temming | August 17, 2021 | Science News For StudentsScience, by comparison, is “full of things that sound like complete rubbish” but turn out to work remarkably well—for example, neural nets, he says.Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AI | Siobhan Roberts | April 16, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewPublishers print stacks of rubbish – “Beach Reading” – for your sake.Our Doomed Love Affair with Summer | P. J. O’Rourke | August 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe actor has since denied involvement in the projects, calling rumors to the contrary “rubbish.”The Cult of Boba Fett: The ‘Star Wars’ Bounty Hunter’s Spin-Off | Rich Goldstein | June 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs he advanced his, eyebrows contracted, and his lips seemed to form the word “rubbish.”Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPeople ought to know that if they stuff themselves silly with high-calorie, rubbish foods they will get fat.Britain’s Weighty Issue | Emma Woolf | January 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt's complete rubbish from the outside, and on a day like this it's going to look even worse.The Resurgence of British Cuisine | Condé Nast Traveler | January 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPresently, one of the foremen or overlookers saw it, and wanted to know what all that rubbish had been put there for.Asbestos | Robert H. JonesAnd now, Monsieur Pujol,” said he impudently, “I am willing to sell you this rubbish for the cheque.The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeShe hugged him, wheel and all, and began turning over the rubbish with great delight.The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerTo tell the truth, Henry had found a few things in the rubbish which he had stored in his own pocket.The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerAnd more than one broken flask on its way to the rubbish heap was carefully carried up the hill to the hidden family.The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerSee More ExamplesBritish Dictionary definitions for rubbishrubbish/ (ˈrʌbɪʃ) /nounworthless, useless, or unwanted matterdiscarded or waste matter; refusefoolish words or speech; nonsenseSee moreverb(tr) informal to criticize; attack verballyOrigin of rubbish1C14 robys, of uncertain originCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition

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B2 mainly UK informal something that you think is very low quality or not true: The film was rubbish. His ideas are a load of (old) rubbish.

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Rubbish and waste

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gubbins

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influent

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recycle

scrap

shavings

skip diving

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spoil

tat

transfer station

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to criticize something: Why does everyone rubbish my ideas?

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low blow

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rubbishadjective UK informal us

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completely without skill at a particular activity: I'm rubbish at arithmetic. You're a rubbish dancer.

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bad at somethingbad atI was overweight and bad at sports.hopelessI’m completely hopeless in the kitchen.uselessUK He’s useless at maths.rubbishUK She’s a pretty rubbish singer, really.incompetentThe rules have made it hard to remove incompetent teachers.

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innocent

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new

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rubbishexclamation UK informal us/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/ uk/ˈrʌb.ɪʃ/

used for saying that you do not agree with what someone has said: "Tomato plants are very difficult to grow." "Rubbish, they're easy to grow!"

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more power to you! idiom

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worthless and unwanted things or ideas; garbage: All that was left of the property was a pile of rubbish nine feet high. I can’t believe they broadcast such rubbish.

(Definition of rubbish from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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But it is home to quite a bit of rubbish as well.

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Stop mouthing the rubbish communist propaganda will you.

From Voice of America

This study is rubbish, the sample size is ridiculously small, so much that it is basically unreliable.

From TIME

It's this looming mass of decomposed rubbish, standing more than 20 meters high.

From CNN

They're on riverways so that they can barge rubbish out.

From The Atlantic

This is bear territory and the rubbish bins installed to deter the animals are also quite efficient at preventing humans to open them, we found.

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Firefighters put out 19 rubbish and vehicle fires and police had made about 50 arrests.

From Los Angeles Times

The creators made these instruments out of plastic bins from rubbish chutes that are used in construction sites.

From Los Angeles Times

He would throw rubbish at the kids passing by.

From NPR

Nowadays the specialist academics publish rubbish and the public intellectuals aren't public.

From The New York Review of Books

This was money they could use to fix the roads, take care of the rubbish, buy fuel, and build desperately needed infrastructure.

From Foreign Policy

These moments and many more no longer must perish amongst the rubbish of seasons gone by.

From MLive.com

There are some ridiculously ignorant people in this world and your rubbish posts have confirmed it.

From CBS Local

Permit me to say that this is rubbish.

From Slate Magazine

It was quickly understood to be a solid thing -- like a rubbish reef, or an island where one could moor a ship.

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Collocations with rubbish

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absolute rubbishI hear his former parliamentary private secretary telling me that that is absolute rubbish.

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complete rubbishAgainst that criterion, the proposition in the amendment is complete rubbish.

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load of rubbishFrankly, all the newspapers that are currently being produced are a load of rubbish, and that industry is going electronic anyway.

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垃圾, 废弃物, 粗制滥造的东西，劣质的东西…

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1.3 Noun

1.3.1 Alternative forms

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1.4 Adjective

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Etymology[edit]

A pile of rubbish in India

Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Anglo-Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium[1] (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear.[2] Possibly derived ultimately from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”). Compare Swedish rubba (“to move, displace, dislodge, upset”).

The verb is derived from the noun.[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

(General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/, /ˈɹə-/

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Rhymes: -ʌbɪʃ

Hyphenation: rub‧bish

Noun[edit]

rubbish (usually uncountable, plural rubbishes)

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash

The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 113:What traſh is Rome? / What Rubbiſh and what Offall? when it ſerues / For the baſe matter, to illuminate / So vile a thing as Cæsar.Rome is trash, rubbish and offal when it serves as inferior matter that is burned to illuminate so vile a thing as Caesar.

[1747?] January 3, “[Literary Memoirs.] An Account of English Ants. By the Rev. William Gould, A.M. of Exeter-College, Oxon. London, printed for A[ndrew] Millar, 1747, 12mo. Pages 109, besides Preface and Dedication.”, in [Mark Akenside], editor, The Museum: Or, The Literary and Historical Register, volume II, number XXI, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1746 (indicated on title page), →OCLC, page 272:[T]he Employments of the common Ants or Workers […] are partly the Management of the Young, and the Building their little Hills of Straw, Rubbiſh, and Particles of Earth, mixed with Blades of Graſs, into little Mounds or Ramparts, on which to expoſe the Eggs and Nymphs to the Sun-beams; their other great Employment is, in collecting Proviſions.

1851 July 19, “The Value of Rubbish [from Chambers’ Journal]”, in E[liakim] Littell, editor, Littel’s Living Age, volume XXX, number CCCLXXIV, Boston, Mass.: Published by E. Littel & Company; Philadelphia, Pa.: Getz & Buck, […]; New York, N.Y.: Dewitt & Davenport, […], →OCLC, chapter XXII, page 125, column 2:In the course of this operation [the copper-fastening of new, or the re-coppering of old, vessels], and more especially in a repair of this latter description, old copper nails, stray pieces of bold and sheet copper, with other parings of a similar nature, are lost among the chips, or in the bottom of the dock. These chips are sold at an almost nominal price, as rubbish, to the smelters, who cart them away often in large quantities, burn the chips out, then wash and smelt the remainder, if necessary, in the ordinary manner.

1862 July, “Buchanan v. The Town of Galt”, in W[illiam] D[avis] Ardagh, Robert A[lexander] Harrison, editors, The Upper Canada Law Journal and Municipal and Local Courts’ Gazette, volume VII, Toronto, Ont.: Printed and published […] by W. C. Chewett & Co., →OCLC, page 182, column 1:The plaintiff claimed damages from the defendants for a breach of duty in allowing and permitting dirt and rubbish to be thrown or put upon a lane or public highway upon which his premises abutted. It appeared in evidence that the damage complained of was occasioned by the filling in and levelling a hollow in the lane, by means whereof the plaintiff's fence was pressed inwards, the filling in being done by private individuals throwing dirt and rubbish thereon.

[1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 17:Simply because as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstoryshortener, he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubbages on to soil here.]

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:[…] I was sleeping with my head on the wooden arm of a seat as six attendants of the theater converged with their night's total of swept-up rubbish and created a huge dusty pile that reached to my nose as I snored head down—till they almost swept me away too. […] Had they taken me with it, Dean would have never seen me again. He would have had to roam the entire United States and look in every garbage pail from coast to coast before he found me embryonically convoluted among the rubbishes of my life, his life, and the life of everybody concerned and not concerned.

2015, Jody Sullivan Rake, “Rubbish-eating Goats”, in Abby Colich, editor, Rubbish Munchers of the Animal World, London: Raintree, Capstone Global Library, →ISBN, page 14:Goats are adventurous eaters. They nose around in rubbish looking for scraps of food.

(by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth) An item, or items, of low quality.

Much of what they sell is rubbish.

1793 February, “Art. 59. Scrapeana. Fugitive Miscellany. Small 8vo. pp. 352. 4s. sewed. Baldwin. 1792. [book review]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume X, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, page 232:[W]e may add that publications of this nature always contain much rubbiſh to make up the bulk; for to produce a neat collection of true wit, requires talents and judgment that would ſcarcely ſtoop to the taſk.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 65:"And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?" / "No, sah—nuffn' else."

(by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth) Nonsense.

Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense

Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?

1774 April, “Summary of the Arguments of the Council and Judges in the Great Cause, which was Lately Heard before the House of Peers, for Ascertaining the Right of Literary Property. […]”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLIV, London: Printed […], for D[avid] Henry, and sold by F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 149, column 2:I ſhall […] lay out of my way the whole bede-roll of citations and precedents which they have produced, that heterogeneous heap of rubbiſh, which is only calculated to confound your Lordſhips, and miſlead the argument.

1923, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Neighbours”, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, pages 27–28:"Essays about what?" / "Oh—rubbish mostly." / There was a moment's pause. / "Oh, Lovat, don't be so silly. You know you don't think your essays rubbish," put in Harriet. "They're about life, and democracy, and equality, and all that sort of thing," Harriet explained.

1933, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter II, in The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published 1934, →OCLC, pages 23–24:But just now she felt that there was something flippant and unseemly in talking such fantastic rubbish: dreams seemed out of place when reality was so heartbreaking.

(archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.

1600, Amandus Polanus, “And thus Farre Concerning Open Enemies: Now Concerning Dissembled Enemies”, in [Elijahu and Thomas Wilcocks], transl., The Svbstanec[sic – meaning Svbstance] of Christian Religion, […], imprinted at London: By Arn[old] Hatfield for Felix Norton, […], →OCLC, book I, page 446:That Antichriſt is a man exerciſing a kingdome, the head of the vniuerſall Apoſtaſie, […] the Romane monarchie being diuided and fallen downe, out of the rubbiſhes whereof, he is by litle & litle riſen & increaſed, thorow the power and forcible working of Sathan, […]

1646, John Hall, “A Satire”, in Poems, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, for J. Rothwell, […], →OCLC; republished London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816, →OCLC, book I, page 34:E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, […]

1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, stanza 280, page 71:At length th' Almighty caſt a pitying eye, / And mercy ſoftly touch'd his melting breaſt: / He ſaw the town's one half in rubbiſh lie, / And eager flames give on to ſtorm the reſt.

1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 441, lines 252–255:See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About whoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / How deſart now it ſtands, expos'd in Air!

1790 July, “Art. III. Mr. [James] Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. [Article continued.]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume II, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, page 271:Nothing remains of Utica, excepting a heap of rubbiſh and ſmall ſtones: but the trenches and approaches of the ancient beſiegers are ſtill very perfect.

Alternative forms[edit]

rubbage (now dialectal)

Derived terms[edit]

good riddance to bad rubbishpiece of rubbishRose Garden rubbishrubbish bagrubbish binrubbish dumprubbish in, rubbish outrubbishing (adjective, dated)rubbishly (archaic)rubbishnessrubbish pulleyrubbishy

Related terms[edit]

rubble (possibly)

Translations[edit]

garbage — see garbage

items of low quality

Bulgarian: боклук (bg) m (bokluk)

Dutch: brol (nl) m

Finnish: roska (fi)

German: Ramsch (de)

Korean: 개털

Serbo-Croatian: smeće n

nonsense

Bulgarian: глупости (bg) f pl (gluposti)

Chinese:

Mandarin: 胡扯 (zh) (húchě), 瞎掰 (zh) (xiābāi), 废话 (zh) (fèihuà)

Czech: nesmysl (cs) m

Danish: vrøvl

Finnish: roska (fi), luikuri (fi), palturi (fi), lööperi (fi), pöty (fi)

French: absurdités (fr) f pl, inepties (fr) f pl

German: Quatsch (de) m, Blödsinn (de) m, Unsinn (de) m, Mist (de) m

Greek: τρίχες (el) f pl (tríches), αηδία (el) f (aïdía)

Hungarian: badarság (hu), butaság (hu), ostobaság (hu), nonszensz (hu), képtelenség (hu), (colloquial) marhaság (hu), (colloquial) hülyeség (hu)

Irish: ráiméis

Italian: corbelleria (it) f, cretinata (it) f, assurdità (it) f

Japanese: くだらないこと (ja) (kudaranai koto), ばかばかしいこと (ja) (bakabakashii koto)

Korean: 개털

Portuguese: besteira (pt) f, asneira (pt) f

Russian: чепуха́ (ru) f (čepuxá), ерунда́ (ru) f (jerundá), вздор (ru) m (vzdor), чушь (ru) f (čušʹ)

Scottish Gaelic: sgudal m

Serbo-Croatian: smeće n, bezvezarije f pl

Swedish: skitsnack (sv)

debris or ruins of buildings

Bulgarian: руини (bg) f pl (ruini)

Finnish: rauniot pl, rakennusjäte

French: décombres (fr) m pl

Serbo-Croatian: šuta (sh) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Italian: (please verify) porcherie (it) f pl

Korean: (please verify) 졸작 (ko) (joljak)

Mandarin: (please verify) 垃圾 (zh) (lājī), (please verify) 废物 (zh)

Vietnamese: (please verify) rác rưởi

Adjective[edit]

rubbish (comparative more rubbish or rubbisher, superlative most rubbish or rubbishest)

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.

Synonyms: abysmal, crappy, horrendous, shitty, terrible; see also Thesaurus:bad, Thesaurus:low-quality

This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.

1989 June, Phil Snout [pseudonym; Phil South], “Rage Hard”, in Matt Bielby, editor, Your Sinclair, number 42, London: Dennis Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 1:Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.

2014 May 6, Richard Adams, “English A-level with Russell Brand and Dizzee Rascal on reading list under fire”, in The Guardian‎[1]:A-level students will study Russell Brand's views on drugs and Caitlin Moran's Twitter feed alongside more conventional literature in a new A-level that was immediately denounced as "rubbish" by sources at the Department for Education.

Translations[edit]

exceedingly bad — see also awful

Chinese:

Mandarin: 垃圾 (zh) (lāji), 爛／烂 (zh) (làn)

Finnish: surkea (fi), kurja (fi)

French: pourri (fr)

Japanese: 屑のような (ja) (くずのような, kuzu no yōna), ゴミのような (ja) (ごみのような, gomi no yōna)

Portuguese: horrível (pt)

Interjection[edit]

rubbish (chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial)

Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson.Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football.

Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

Synonyms: bollocks, bullshit

Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

1906, Alfred Sutro, The Walls of Jericho: A Play in Four Acts, French’s Standard Library edition, New York, N.Y., London: Samuel French, →OCLC, act II, page 44:Rubbish, sir, rubbish! Pestilent and pernicious rubbish! An honest man must consider what he owes to his name and his rank. That is the first consideration.

Translations[edit]

used to express that something is exceedingly bad

Finnish: pahus (fi)

German: Müll (de)

Hebrew: ⁧שטויות⁩ f pl (shtu'yot)

Hungarian: szemét (hu)

Italian: schifezza (it) f, sciocchezza (it) f

Japanese: クズ (くず, kuzu), ゴミ (ja) (ごみ, gomi)

Portuguese: porcaria (pt)

used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue

Bulgarian: глупости (bg) (gluposti)

Chinese:

Mandarin: 廢話／废话 (zh) (fèihuà), 胡扯 (zh) (húchě)

Dutch: onzin (nl)

Finnish: roskaa (fi)

French: n’importe quoi (fr)

Georgian: სისულელე (sisulele)

German: Quatsch (de)

Italian: corbelleria (it) f, cretinata (it) f, assurdità (it) f

Japanese: くだらない (ja) (kudaranai), ばかばかしい (ja) (bakabakashii)

Maori: meho

Portuguese: besteira (pt)

Verb[edit]

rubbish (third-person singular simple present rubbishes, present participle rubbishing, simple past and past participle rubbished)

(transitive, chiefly Australia, Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Commonwealth, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage. [from c. 1950s (Australia, New Zealand)]

1977 August 17, A[rthur] J[ames] Faulkner, “Human Rights Commission Bill”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): Third Session, Thirty-eighth Parliament (House of Representatives), volume 412, Wellington: E. C. Keating, government printer, published 1978, →OCLC, pages 2307–2308:In my judgment, it is not Christian—I think that is the proper way to put it—to rubbish the leaders of our trade union movements, both employers' and workers'. [...] The employers are quite right in rubbishing this section. The recently retired Chief Ombudsman rubbished it. The insurance guild, not exactly known as a militant trade union until recently, has rubbished it. Twenty-nine leaders in our community have rubbished it.

1995, Nick Hornby, chapter 13, in High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 122:We're messing around at work, the three of us, getting ready to go home and rubbishing each other's five best side one track ones of all time [...]

2011, Penelope Lively, chapter 1, in How It All Began, London: Fig Tree, Penguin Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 11:Oh, there is fuel enough for the memoirs, even if Marion's eyes glaze over, periodically, during tea or one of Corrie's rather awful lunches [...]. The names flow forth, and are rubbished or extolled, [...]

2012, Melanie Milburne, chapter 1, in The Virgin’s Price, London: Mill & Boon Sexy, →ISBN:'It's the first real acting job I've had and he completely rubbishes it. My career will be over before it even starts.' / 'I wouldn't take it too personally,' Shelley said as she reloaded the café dishwasher. 'Bryn Dwyer rubbishes just about everything. [...']

2020 May 20, Barry Doe, “McLoughlin unfair with opinion of late-BR rail”, in Rail, page 65:Such irresponsible comments seem to me clearly an attempt for political reasons to rubbish a past that was of a far better quality than anything that exists today.

2023 July 15, Josh Noble, quoting Delia Smith, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:Delia's Complete Cookery Course is still in print more than 40 years since its first publication. “Everybody did rubbish it,” she says.

(Australia, Hong Kong) To litter.

1999 December 1, Cheng Chun-ping, quotee, “Special TV programme to disseminate keep clean messages”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[2]:Speaking at today's (Tuesday) press conference to announce details of the show, Chairman of the Steering Committee, Mr Cheng Chun-ping urged members of the public to sustain their keep clean efforts and to let the message of the campaign slogan -- "There is never any excuse to rubbish your home" stride across the new Millennium.

2007 March 8, Tika Viker-Bloss, “How to tackle the rising tide of litter in filthy Britain”, in The Guardian‎[3]:In the 1970s there was a hugely successful campaign using the slogan: "You wouldn't rubbish your home. Australia's your home. Don't rubbish Australia." The adverts compared tossing table scraps on to the carpet with throwing food packaging from a car. It worked.

Derived terms[edit]

rubbisher

Translations[edit]

to criticize, denigrate — see also criticize,‎ denigrate

Finnish: haukkua (fi), moittia (fi)

Japanese: こき下ろす (こきおろす, kokiorosu), 酷評する (ja) (こくひょうする, kokuhyō suru)

Portuguese: criticar (pt)

References[edit]

^ “rǒbǒus, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 December 2018.

^ “rubbish, n., adj., and int.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011; “rubbish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

^ “rubbish, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.

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