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filth
English
Etymology
From Middle English filth, from Old English f?lþu, from Proto-West Germanic *f?liþu, equivalent to foul +? -th.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?
Noun
filth (usually uncountable, plural filths)
- Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
- Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Excellency of the Christian Religion
- purifying our souls from the dross and filth of sensual delights
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Excellency of the Christian Religion
- (Britain, derogatory, slang, with definite article) The police.
- (derogatory, uncountable) A vile or disgusting person.
- (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land.
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rubbish
English
Etymology
From Middle English r?b?us (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Late Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???b??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???b??/, /???-/
- Hyphenation: rub?bish
Noun
rubbish (usually uncountable, plural rubbishes)
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
- (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) An item, or items, of low quality.
- (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Nonsense.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense
- (archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings.
Alternative forms
- rubbage (now dialectal)
Derived terms
Related terms
- rubble (possibly)
Translations
Adjective
rubbish (comparative more rubbish, superlative most rubbish)
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.
- Synonyms: abysmal, crappy, horrendous, shitty, terrible; see also Thesaurus:bad, Thesaurus:low-quality
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Interjection
rubbish (chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial)
- Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.
- Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!
- Synonyms: bollocks, bullshit
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Verb
rubbish (third-person singular simple present rubbishes, present participle rubbishing, simple past and past participle rubbished)
- (transitive, chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage. [from c. 1950s (Australia, New Zealand)]
Derived terms
- rubbisher
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References
Further reading
- waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rubbish”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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