Definitions for rubbish
ˈrʌb ɪʃrub·bish

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rubbish, trash, scrapnoun

   worthless material that is to be disposed of

2. folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallopverb

   nonsensical talk or writing

3. rubbishverb

   attack strongly

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. rubbishnoun

   Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.

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

2. rubbishnoun

   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?

3. rubbishverb

   To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

4. rubbishadjective

   Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.

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

5. rubbishinterjection

   Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.

6. rubbishinterjection

   Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.

   Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rubbishnoun

   waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris

2. Rubbishadjective

   of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy

3. Etymology: [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.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rubbish

   rub′ish, n. waste matter: the fragments of ruinous buildings: any mingled mass: nonsense: trash: trumpery: litter.—n. Rubb′ish-heap, a pile of rubbish.—adj. Rubb′ishing, trashy: paltry.—n. Rubb′ish-pull′ey, a gin-block.—adj. Rubb′ishy, worthless. [M. E. robows, robeux—O. Fr. robeux, pl. of robel, dim. of robe, robbe, trash, whence also rubble; cf. It. roba, rubbish, spoil.]

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British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rubbish' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1299

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rubbish' in Nouns Frequency: #1685

How to pronounce rubbish?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say rubbish in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rubbish in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rubbish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of rubbish in a Sentence

1. Demi Mutch:

   It's somewhere where you can go and forget about all this virus stuff, that's all that's playing on our news at the moment, so to be able to go and watch some funny creative clips and photos of people taking out their rubbish is the best thing in my day to have a quick scroll.

2. Nicholas Strausfeld:

   They said, Rubbish, lot of nonsense.

3. Arabella Ross:

   If people are wondering where their rubbish ends up, we see it each time we go into the water.

4. Stephen Powis:

   The 5G story is complete and utter rubbish, it's nonsense, it's the worst kind of fake news, the reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us.

5. Robert Jackson:

   The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

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