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rub⋅bish

[ruhb-ish]
–noun
1. worthless, unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; trash.
2. nonsense, as in writing or art: sentimental rubbish.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME rubbes, rob(b)ous < ?; cf. rubble


2. rot, balderdash, drivel, bosh.
rub·bish   (rŭb'ĭsh)   
n.  
  1. Refuse; garbage.
  2. Worthless material.
  3. Foolish discourse; nonsense.

[Middle English robishe.]

Rubbish

Rub"bish\, n. [OE. robows, robeux, rubble, originally an Old French plural from an assumed dim. of robe, probably in the sense of trash; cf. It. robaccia trash, roba stuff, goods, wares, robe. Thus, etymologically rubbish is the pl. of rubble. See Robe, and cf. Rubble.] Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; d['e]bris.

What rubbish and what offal! --Shak.

he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. --Dryden.

Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.

Rubbish

Rub"bish\, a. Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy. --De Quincey.
Language Translation for : rubbish
Spanish: basura, desperdicios,
German: der Abfall; Abfall…,
Japanese: くず

rubbish 
c.1400, from Anglo-Fr. rubouses (1392), of unknown origin. Apparently somehow related to rubble. The verb sense of "disparage, criticize harshly" is first attested 1953 in Australian and New Zealand slang.
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