Rubbish
['rʌbɪʃ]
Definition
(noun.) worthless material that is to be disposed of.
(verb.) attack strongly.
Checker: Seymour--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
(a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.
Edited by Barton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Refuse, ruins, fragments, DEBRIS, dirt, litter, lumber, trash, orts, dross, dregs, scum, scoria, sweepings.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:debris, waste_matter, fragments, litter, dross, refuse, lion_sense, trash
ANT:[See REGAL]
Typist: Remington
Definition
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.
Checked by Gerald
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of rubbish, denotes that you will badly manage your affairs.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Worthless matter such as the religions philosophies literatures arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
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Examples
- Don't tell me, Mrs. Archer would say to her children, all this modern newspaper rubbish about a New York aristocracy. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Principally rags and rubbish, my dear friend! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Laurie's a nice boy and I like him, and I won't have any sentimental stuff about compliments and such rubbish. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Without paying the least attention to me, Mrs. Yolland took another dive into the rubbish, and came up out of it, this time, with a dog-chain. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Therefore, I followed him without a word, to a retired nook of the garden, formed by the junction of two walls and screened by some rubbish. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I wish you would hide your rubbish somewhere else. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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