Meaning

4 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, uncountable, usually)Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

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

  2. (Commonwealth, broadly, uncountable, usually)An item, or items, of low quality.

    Much of what they sell is utter rubbish.

    Ramsch

  3. (Commonwealth, broadly, uncountable, usually)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?

    Quatsch, Blödsinn, Unsinn

    чепуха́čepuxá, ерунда́jerundá, вздорvzdor

  4. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.

More definitions
  • worthless material that is to be disposed of
  • nonsensical talk or writing

Examples

156 sentences
  1. This is rubbish.

    Це сміття.

    ruЭто мусор.

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  2. My home is full of rubbish.

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  3. Put all the rubbish in the barrel.

    ruПоложите весь мусор в эту бочку.

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  4. This is all rubbish.

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  5. Did you take out the rubbish?

    Ти виніс сміття?

    ruТы мусор вынес?

    deHast du den Müll rausgebracht?

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
nonsense:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
items of low quality:
nonsense:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertai

Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Anglo-Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear. Possibly derived ultimately from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”). Compare Swedish rubba (“to move, displace, dislodge, upset”).

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