1855 Bombay Q. Rev. Apr. 258 Whenever he meets with every-day people like ourselves he points his nose up into the air, passes on, and soon ceases to remember that such ‘rubbishers’ ever existed.

1890 Bk. Buyer Oct. 374/1 The Pedantic Rubbisher is bad enough, but the Absolute Driveller is even worse.

1963 G. Grigson in Contrary View (1974) 169 If your poems are related to a mood better voiced by others, it does not follow that you yourself are a Leopardi, or anything else than a fudger and a rubbisher.

1874 Let. 2 Sept. in W. J. Parry Penrhyn Lock-out, 1900–1901 (1901) 20 In regard to the demands about the rebelwrs, platelayers, and rubbishers, I consider that these questions are settled as included in the agreement, that the allowance shall be the same as those existing in the Vaynol Quarries.

1892 Royal Comm. Labour: Minutes of Evid. before Group 'A' II. 2/2 in Parl. Papers (C. 6795–IV) XXXVI. i. 5 A rubbisher, or labourer,..is the man who carries away all the material from the rock-men to the place where the slates are made.

1984 J. Cook Close to Earth i. v. 69 He started as a labourer, what they called a ‘rubbisher’.

1969 D. S. Wilkins Diary 1 June 44 The entertainers exposed themselves to the roughest audience of rubbishers in existence.

1984 Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 11/1 The opinion of television rubbisher Milton Shulman that BBC-2 is ‘the least worst channel we've got’,..sounded dated.

1989 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 17 Nov. 60/5 (heading) Maggert has last laugh on rubbisher.

2004 Spectator (Nexis) 24 Feb. 40 Achebe, it seems to me, is wrong to classify Joyce Carey alongside V. S. Naipaul and others as a belittler and rubbisher of Africa and the African.