Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial)Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

    - The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson. - Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football.

    Müll

  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial)Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

    Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

    Quatsch

Examples

156 sentences
  1. This is rubbish.

    Це сміття. — deniko

    ruЭто мусор. — Selena777

  2. My home is full of rubbish.

  3. Put all the rubbish in the barrel.

    ruПоложите весь мусор в эту бочку. — sharptoothed

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  4. This is all rubbish.

  5. Did you take out the rubbish?

    Ти виніс сміття? — deniko

    ruТы мусор вынес? — marafon

    deHast du den Müll rausgebracht? — driini

Translations

4 languages
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used to express that something is exceedingly bad:
used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue:

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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