different between rubbish vs ooze

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)

1. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
2. (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) An item, or items, of low quality.
3. (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Nonsense.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense
4. (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)

1. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.

   Synonyms: abysmal, crappy, horrendous, shitty, terrible; see also Thesaurus:bad, Thesaurus:low-quality

Translations

Interjection

rubbish (chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial)

1. Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

2. Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

   Synonyms: bollocks, bullshit

Translations

Verb

rubbish (third-person singular simple present rubbishes, present participle rubbishing, simple past and past participle rubbished)

1. (transitive, chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage. [from c. 1950s (Australia, New Zealand)]

Derived terms

• rubbisher

Translations

References

Further reading

• waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rubbish”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: o?oz, IPA^(key): /u?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: oohs

Etymology 1

• (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English w?s (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *w?s? (cf. Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos), from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh? (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit ??? (vás?, “fat”)).
• (Verb) Middle English wosen, from wose (wose, “sap”); see above.

Noun

ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)

1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
3. (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
4. (obsolete) Juice, sap.

Translations

Verb

ooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To be secreted or slowly leak.
   • 1868, Charlotte Riddell, A Strange Christmas Game

     I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.

   • 1988, David Drake, The Sea Hag, Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.

   • 1994, Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life, Vintage Books (1995), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.

   • 2011, Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch, Flux (2011), ?ISBN, page 278:

     Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
   • 1989, Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour, Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.

   • 1999, Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility, Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ?ISBN, page 16:

     There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.

Derived terms

• oozy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wose, from Old English w?se (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *wais? (compare Dutch waas (“haze, mist; bloom”), (obsolete) German Wasen (“turf, sod”), Old Norse veisa (“slime, stagnant pool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weis (“to flow”) (compare Sanskrit ??????? (vi?yati, “flow, let loose”)). More at virus.

Noun

ooze (plural oozes)

1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

2. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter

     Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.

3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.