rubbish

Meaning

Noun

1. (Commonwealth, uncountable, usually) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
2. (Commonwealth, broadly, uncountable, usually) An item, or items, of low quality.
3. (Commonwealth, broadly, uncountable, usually) Nonsense.
4. (archaic, uncountable, usually) Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.

Adj

Exceedingly bad; awful.

Intj

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

Verb

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, transitive) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.
2. (Australia, Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, colloquial, transitive) To litter.

Synonyms

trash

garbage

🗑️

refuse

nonsense

waste

litter

junk

sweepings

balderdash

dirt

garbage

🗑️

debris

dust

scrap

offal

shit

💩

twaddle

tripe

scum

rot

absurdity

stuff

cuttings

filth

applesauce

scraps

parings

codswallop

lumber

clippings

wish-wash

hooey

poor work

chaff

trumpery

waste matter

bullshit

tosh

crumbs

windfall

brash

rubble

crap

schlock

of no value

fiddlesticks

muck

lousy

hot air

gibberish

Translations

basura

Müll

spazzatura

Abfall

ordures

onzin

immondizia

foutaise

déchets

afval

fadaise

bêtise

lixo

🗑️

Quatsch

débris

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: robous

Cognate with Latin: rebbussa

Cognate with Swedish: rubba

In summary

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”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

Sentences

Only one third of the rubbish is being recycled in this country .