rubbage

Noun

rubbish (usually uncountable, plural rubbishes)

1. (Commonwealth, usually) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
   • The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.

   Synonyms:

   cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf

2. (Commonwealth, broadly, usually) An item, or items, of low quality.
   • Much of what they sell is utter rubbish.

   Synonyms:

   garbage, trash, cheapie, crapola, gash, hunk of junk, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit, piece of crap

3. (Commonwealth, broadly, usually) 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?

   Synonyms:

   absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil

4. (obsolete, usually) Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.
   • 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, […]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...

   Synonyms:

   detritus, remains, debris, ruins, rubble, wreckage

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