rubbish

ˈɹʌbɪʃ

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#1·5h ago

(chiefly, Commonwealth) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

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

Origin: [[File:India - Sights & Culture - Common garbage dump outside a temple (2566331277).jpg|thumb|A pile of rubbish in India]] , further origin ; possibly from , rubouse, rubbouse, and compare Anglo-, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (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. Possibly derived ultimately from , from . Compare . The verb is derived from the noun. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·5h ago

(by extension, chiefly, Commonwealth) An item, or items, of low quality.

[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 t…

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#3·5h ago

(by extension, chiefly, Commonwealth) Nonsense.

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 o…

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