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Definition of rubbish in English: rubbishnoun ˈrʌbɪʃˈrəbɪʃ mass nounBritish 1Waste material; refuse or litter. householders may be charged for the removal of non-recyclable rubbish Example sentencesExamples - Some people were having to take their excess rubbish to the municipal waste depot at Thornton-le-Dale.
- If we care so much about our town's image, how come there is chewing gum trodden into the costly paving in Victoria Square and all sorts of cans, cartons and stray rubbish littering our streets?
- Under the new scheme the town's bin lorries will collect recyclable waste and household rubbish on alternate weeks forcing residents to hold onto black sacks for up to 14 days.
- It was finally discovered right at the bottom of a pile of garden waste and other rubbish, but with the gold and gems intact.
- Often the buses are dirty, smelly and littered with rubbish.
- While walking on the prom on Saturday night, close to the entrance to the stone jetty, I came across a dog waste bin overflowing with rubbish.
- What do we care what happens to our rubbish after the nice refuse engineer has collected it from our home?
- From the start of the procession we were pelted with rubbish, litter, very hard sweets, stones and eggs.
- Teams of children, aged between 12 and 19 years, cleared piles of rubbish in a two-hour litter blitz.
- The Government has known for five years that disposing of solid toxic waste with domestic rubbish would be banned, bringing the UK in line with the rest of Europe.
- The scheme requires people using a van or trailer to dump rubbish at household waste sites to pay for a permit.
- Waste ground on Tile Street was also reported to be badly littered with rubbish.
- The team will also be happy to offer practical help and advice to anyone who experiences difficulties fitting rubbish into their refuse bin when the new fortnightly collection rota begins.
- West Wiltshire District Council is introducing a new twin bin scheme, which sees recyclable waste and regular rubbish collected on alternate weeks.
- The government and councils have told bin workers to refuse to collect rubbish from homes that have not paid.
- The winners of City of York Council's summer clean-up campaign were presented with prizes, won after they gained raffle tickets for putting their rubbish in waste bins.
- The landscaped areas behind the bus stop - which residents say attracts rats because of rubbish thrown by litter louts - will also be cleaned up if the scheme is passed.
- This will allow the council to introduce alternate weekly collections of recyclable waste one week and non-recyclable rubbish from the grey wheeled bin the next.
- The council provides residents with a green waste bin for non-recyclable household rubbish, bags for paper, boxes for glass and a separate bin for garden waste.
- We know that some people fear a build-up of rubbish where domestic waste collections have been reduced.
Synonyms refuse, waste, garbage, litter, discarded matter, debris, detritus, scrap, dross flotsam and jetsam, lumber sweepings, leavings, leftovers, scraps, dregs, offscourings, odds and ends muck North American trash Australian/New Zealand mullock informal dreck, junk British informal grot, gash Archaeology debitage rare draff, raffle, raff, cultch, orts - 1.1 Material that is considered unimportant or valueless.
she had to sift through the rubbish in every drawer Example sentencesExamples - They cobble together any old rubbish to pass off as art such as baths full of baked beans or piles of old house bricks.
- Among the jumble and mess were hidden treasures priceless articles bundled next to worthless rubbish.
- 1.2 Absurd, nonsensical, or worthless talk or ideas.
critics said their work was a load of rubbish as exclamation some MPs yelled ‘Rubbish!’ Example sentencesExamples - A lot of people say I talk a load of rubbish in this column but this particular week they are absolutely right.
- Since when are you a great believer in true love and all that romance novel rubbish?
- Well, I do have some ideas, but they're all rubbish.
- I think the idea of a metrosexual man is a load of rubbish.
- Some of these television pundits do talk a load of rubbish!
- What a load of rubbish, how can they stand there talking such nonsense in front of reporters?
- They thought it was a load of rubbish and just ignored it as any proof had yet to be discovered.
- The claim made by the Minister that this bill will reduce compliance costs, and suchlike, is a load of rubbish.
- Many people here who suffer from cancer believed this rubbish and of course spent their life savings and even incurred debts to pay for this man's vitamins to cure the disease.
- It is very difficult to believe half the rubbish uttered by some team managers before and after matches these days.
- This bill is gobbledygook; it is twaddle; it is rubbish.
- How can so many people in the world's most technically advanced nation believe such rubbish?
- It is smug, fundamentalist rubbish to suggest that simply because people do not believe in this particular bill, they are anti-family.
- And we can safely say that it is a load of rubbish.
- We have been accused of selling out at Warwick - what a load of rubbish.
- What we are hearing now is just total drivel and rubbish.
- It is nothing short of extraordinary that, at the close of the 20th century, intelligent people still believe in superstitious rubbish.
- It was a load of rubbish, I don't want to waste my time watching that.
- There are still a few die-hard bigots around who still believe that sort of rubbish.
- I have never read such a load of rubbish in my life.
Synonyms nonsense, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether, moonshine informal hogwash, baloney, tripe, drivel, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, rot, hot air, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, twaddle, guff, dribble gobbledegook British informal codswallop, cock, cobblers, stuff and nonsense, tosh, taradiddle, cack Scottish & Northern English informal havers Irish informal codology North American informal garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce informal, dated bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon, toffee vulgar slang shit, crap, bullshit, balls North American vulgar slang crapola Australian/New Zealand vulgar slang bulldust
verb ˈrʌbɪʃˈrəbɪʃ [with object]British informal Criticize severely and reject as worthless. he rubbished the idea of a European Community-wide carbon tax Example sentencesExamples - His previous books on what he says are earth's forgotten civilisations were bestsellers - but rubbished by certain academics.
- Even if post modernism readily swaps wit and subversion for gravitas and rubbishes the idea of the ‘original’ in art, the question is not invalid.
- Rumours that certain parts of the college are haunted were rubbished by one porter, who dismissed them as ‘codswallop’.
- But ministers have been notably restrained about rubbishing the paper on microphone.
- Carlyle rubbished talk of retirement immediately after suffering the injury, and he has reiterated his eagerness to return to action.
- For more than a month, employees at the stately home had denied all knowledge of an impending wedding, rubbishing local rumours that the island would host the occasion.
- Constantly rubbishing residential childcare is enormously detrimental to the young people and staff who live and work in them.
- I express this concern to my friend, who rubbishes my fears.
- She wasn't buying any of this, but thought she would pick it apart rationally before she rubbished it publicly.
- Granted, the media response to the series was overwhelmingly hostile, with The Sunday Times to the fore in rubbishing the programmes.
- But look, I'm not completely rubbishing the idea.
- Scotland might again be its own worst enemy, rubbishing a plucky enterprise which succeeded in publishing a handful of worthwhile books against the odds.
- A senior road policing officer has rubbished reports that a dual carriageway near Chelmsford is being used as an unofficial race track.
- Since then he has spent much of his time rubbishing Jack's achievements in the job.
- Using his position at the University of Berlin he dedicated himself to rubbishing Cantor's ideas and ruining him personally.
- Jennifer's spokesperson has also rubbished the rumours
- Continental Europeans rubbished the idea, saying that generations of French and Italian women and children had eaten soft cheese without ill effect.
- He is at his splenetic best when rubbishing Auden's poetry, a subject he joyously returns to again and again.
- These petty slurs have been rubbished by the business consortium and players alike.
- Ever since we first discovered foreign food gastronomes have been rubbishing homegrown grub as fatty stodge.
Synonyms belittle, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, deflate, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate criticize, find fault with, censure, denounce, condemn, arraign, attack, lambaste, pillory, disapprove of, carp at, cavil at, rail against, inveigh against, cast aspersions on, pour scorn on, disparage, denigrate, deprecate, malign, vilify, besmirch, run down, give a bad press to
adjective ˈrʌbɪʃˈrəbɪʃ British informal Very bad; worthless or useless. people might say I was a rubbish manager Example sentencesExamples - We constantly hear about people being encouraged to dump their cars and get on the bus but then we are left with a rubbish bus service.
- The wonderful thing about football is that you can always find something to lighten up your day - even when you've got no leg room, a restricted view and are watching a rubbish game at Oldham.
- It sounds like a rubbish chain of hotels.
Synonyms worthless, valueless, trashy, inferior, unsatisfactory, substandard, second-rate, third-rate, poor-quality, low-quality, low-grade, cheap, shoddy, tawdry, gimcrack, twopenny-halfpenny very bad, very poor, awful, terrible, dreadful, appalling, frightful, atrocious, inferior, incompetent, inadequate, ineffective
Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French rubbous; perhaps related to Old French robe 'spoils'; compare with rubble. The change in the ending was due to association with -ish1. The verb (1950s) was originally Australian and New Zealand slang. This is from Anglo-Norman French rubbous; it may be related to Old French robe ‘spoils’ (see rob). The change in the ending was due to association with words ending in -ish. The verb meaning ‘denigrate’, found from the 1950s, was originally Australian and New Zealand slang. Rubble (Late Middle English) may also be an alteration robe.
Definition of rubbish in US English: rubbishnounˈrəbɪʃˈrəbiSH British 1Waste material; refuse or litter. an alleyway high with rubbish Example sentencesExamples - The team will also be happy to offer practical help and advice to anyone who experiences difficulties fitting rubbish into their refuse bin when the new fortnightly collection rota begins.
- Some people were having to take their excess rubbish to the municipal waste depot at Thornton-le-Dale.
- We know that some people fear a build-up of rubbish where domestic waste collections have been reduced.
- What do we care what happens to our rubbish after the nice refuse engineer has collected it from our home?
- While walking on the prom on Saturday night, close to the entrance to the stone jetty, I came across a dog waste bin overflowing with rubbish.
- Waste ground on Tile Street was also reported to be badly littered with rubbish.
- This will allow the council to introduce alternate weekly collections of recyclable waste one week and non-recyclable rubbish from the grey wheeled bin the next.
- The landscaped areas behind the bus stop - which residents say attracts rats because of rubbish thrown by litter louts - will also be cleaned up if the scheme is passed.
- The scheme requires people using a van or trailer to dump rubbish at household waste sites to pay for a permit.
- It was finally discovered right at the bottom of a pile of garden waste and other rubbish, but with the gold and gems intact.
- From the start of the procession we were pelted with rubbish, litter, very hard sweets, stones and eggs.
- The winners of City of York Council's summer clean-up campaign were presented with prizes, won after they gained raffle tickets for putting their rubbish in waste bins.
- The council provides residents with a green waste bin for non-recyclable household rubbish, bags for paper, boxes for glass and a separate bin for garden waste.
- West Wiltshire District Council is introducing a new twin bin scheme, which sees recyclable waste and regular rubbish collected on alternate weeks.
- If we care so much about our town's image, how come there is chewing gum trodden into the costly paving in Victoria Square and all sorts of cans, cartons and stray rubbish littering our streets?
- The government and councils have told bin workers to refuse to collect rubbish from homes that have not paid.
- Under the new scheme the town's bin lorries will collect recyclable waste and household rubbish on alternate weeks forcing residents to hold onto black sacks for up to 14 days.
- Often the buses are dirty, smelly and littered with rubbish.
- Teams of children, aged between 12 and 19 years, cleared piles of rubbish in a two-hour litter blitz.
- The Government has known for five years that disposing of solid toxic waste with domestic rubbish would be banned, bringing the UK in line with the rest of Europe.
Synonyms refuse, waste, garbage, litter, discarded matter, debris, detritus, scrap, dross - 1.1 Material that is considered unimportant or valueless.
she had to sift through the rubbish in every drawer Example sentencesExamples - They cobble together any old rubbish to pass off as art such as baths full of baked beans or piles of old house bricks.
- Among the jumble and mess were hidden treasures priceless articles bundled next to worthless rubbish.
- 1.2 Absurd, nonsensical, or worthless talk or ideas.
I suppose you believe that rubbish about vampires Example sentencesExamples - Some of these television pundits do talk a load of rubbish!
- The claim made by the Minister that this bill will reduce compliance costs, and suchlike, is a load of rubbish.
- We have been accused of selling out at Warwick - what a load of rubbish.
- It is very difficult to believe half the rubbish uttered by some team managers before and after matches these days.
- They thought it was a load of rubbish and just ignored it as any proof had yet to be discovered.
- And we can safely say that it is a load of rubbish.
- Well, I do have some ideas, but they're all rubbish.
- I think the idea of a metrosexual man is a load of rubbish.
- I have never read such a load of rubbish in my life.
- This bill is gobbledygook; it is twaddle; it is rubbish.
- There are still a few die-hard bigots around who still believe that sort of rubbish.
- A lot of people say I talk a load of rubbish in this column but this particular week they are absolutely right.
- How can so many people in the world's most technically advanced nation believe such rubbish?
- It was a load of rubbish, I don't want to waste my time watching that.
- It is smug, fundamentalist rubbish to suggest that simply because people do not believe in this particular bill, they are anti-family.
- What we are hearing now is just total drivel and rubbish.
- Since when are you a great believer in true love and all that romance novel rubbish?
- What a load of rubbish, how can they stand there talking such nonsense in front of reporters?
- Many people here who suffer from cancer believed this rubbish and of course spent their life savings and even incurred debts to pay for this man's vitamins to cure the disease.
- It is nothing short of extraordinary that, at the close of the 20th century, intelligent people still believe in superstitious rubbish.
Synonyms nonsense, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether, moonshine
verbˈrəbɪʃˈrəbiSH [with object]British informal Criticize severely and reject as worthless. he has pointedly rubbished professional estimates of the development and running costs Example sentencesExamples - She wasn't buying any of this, but thought she would pick it apart rationally before she rubbished it publicly.
- Ever since we first discovered foreign food gastronomes have been rubbishing homegrown grub as fatty stodge.
- A senior road policing officer has rubbished reports that a dual carriageway near Chelmsford is being used as an unofficial race track.
- But look, I'm not completely rubbishing the idea.
- Jennifer's spokesperson has also rubbished the rumours
- His previous books on what he says are earth's forgotten civilisations were bestsellers - but rubbished by certain academics.
- For more than a month, employees at the stately home had denied all knowledge of an impending wedding, rubbishing local rumours that the island would host the occasion.
- Scotland might again be its own worst enemy, rubbishing a plucky enterprise which succeeded in publishing a handful of worthwhile books against the odds.
- But ministers have been notably restrained about rubbishing the paper on microphone.
- Rumours that certain parts of the college are haunted were rubbished by one porter, who dismissed them as ‘codswallop’.
- Using his position at the University of Berlin he dedicated himself to rubbishing Cantor's ideas and ruining him personally.
- Even if post modernism readily swaps wit and subversion for gravitas and rubbishes the idea of the ‘original’ in art, the question is not invalid.
- Continental Europeans rubbished the idea, saying that generations of French and Italian women and children had eaten soft cheese without ill effect.
- I express this concern to my friend, who rubbishes my fears.
- He is at his splenetic best when rubbishing Auden's poetry, a subject he joyously returns to again and again.
- Since then he has spent much of his time rubbishing Jack's achievements in the job.
- Constantly rubbishing residential childcare is enormously detrimental to the young people and staff who live and work in them.
- These petty slurs have been rubbished by the business consortium and players alike.
- Carlyle rubbished talk of retirement immediately after suffering the injury, and he has reiterated his eagerness to return to action.
- Granted, the media response to the series was overwhelmingly hostile, with The Sunday Times to the fore in rubbishing the programmes.
Synonyms belittle, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, deflate, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate criticize, find fault with, censure, denounce, condemn, arraign, attack, lambaste, pillory, disapprove of, carp at, cavil at, rail against, inveigh against, cast aspersions on, pour scorn on, disparage, denigrate, deprecate, malign, vilify, besmirch, run down, give a bad press to
adjectiveˈrəbɪʃˈrəbiSH British informal Very bad; worthless or useless. people might say I was a rubbish manager Example sentencesExamples - We constantly hear about people being encouraged to dump their cars and get on the bus but then we are left with a rubbish bus service.
- The wonderful thing about football is that you can always find something to lighten up your day - even when you've got no leg room, a restricted view and are watching a rubbish game at Oldham.
- It sounds like a rubbish chain of hotels.
Synonyms worthless, valueless, trashy, inferior, unsatisfactory, substandard, second-rate, third-rate, poor-quality, low-quality, low-grade, cheap, shoddy, tawdry, gimcrack, twopenny-halfpenny very bad, very poor, awful, terrible, dreadful, appalling, frightful, atrocious, inferior, incompetent, inadequate, ineffective
Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French rubbous; perhaps related to Old French robe ‘spoils’; compare with rubble. The change in the ending was due to association with -ish. The verb (1950s) was originally Australian and New Zealand slang. |