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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)

  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

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wastebasket

English

Etymology

waste +? basket

Noun

wastebasket (plural wastebaskets)

  1. A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:waste bin

Derived terms

  • wastebasket taxon

Translations

Verb

wastebasket (third-person singular simple present wastebaskets, present participle wastebasketing, simple past and past participle wastebasketed)

  1. (transitive) To discard in a wastebasket.
    • ante 1924 (posthumous, died 1910): Mark Twain, Autobiography
      I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.

See also

  • wastepaper basket

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