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rubish

rubish adjective: like a rube.

Adjective

rubish (comparative more rubish, superlative most rubish)

  1. Like a rube.
    • I suppose I am a rubish hayseed in some sense, full of down-home notions that contradict the more sophisticated notions of my colleagues.1992, Donald Barthelme, Kim A. Herzinger, The teachings of Don B.

Forms of rubish

comparativemore rubish
superlativemost rubish

Origin of rubish

From rube + -ish.

Questions about rubish

What does rubish mean?
Rubish means like a rube.
What part of speech is rubish?
Rubish is an adjective.

Words near rubish in the dictionary

  1. rubiretin
  2. rubisco
  3. rubiscolin
  4. rubiscolins
  5. rubiscos
  6. rubish
  7. rubitecan
  8. rubivirus
  9. rubiviruses
  10. Rubix cube
  11. rubixanthin

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