rubbish
Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trashRefuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
Meaning
4 senses(Commonwealth, uncountable, usually)Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
(Commonwealth, broadly, uncountable, usually)An item, or items, of low quality.
Much of what they sell is utter rubbish.
Ramsch
(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
(obsolete, uncountable, usually)Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.
- worthless material that is to be disposed of
- nonsensical talk or writing
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
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Origin
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
plural: rubbishesSynonyms
132 synonymsWord family
13 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable