rubbish
Exceedingly bad; awfulExceedingly bad; awful.
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Meaning
1 senses(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial)Exceedingly bad; awful.
This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.
Examples
156 sentencesThis is rubbish.
Це сміття. — deniko
ruЭто мусор. — Selena777
My home is full of rubbish.
Put all the rubbish in the barrel.
ruПоложите весь мусор в эту бочку. — sharptoothed
This is all rubbish.
Did you take out the rubbish?
Ти виніс сміття? — deniko
ruТы мусор вынес? — marafon
deHast du den Müll rausgebracht? — driini
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertaiInherited 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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Forms
more rubbish/rubbisher, most rubbish/rubbishest| Comparative | more rubbish / rubbisher Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most rubbish / rubbishest Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
93 synonymsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
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