rubbish
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MORE ABOUT RUBBISH
What is rubbish?
Rubbish is unwanted material, such as something you throw into a waste barrel, like a banana peel.
Rubbish is also something that is considered nonsense and not worth anything, like an idea or a piece of art.
In Australia and New Zealand, rubbish can mean to criticize or verbally attack. It’s often used informally.
Example: Make sure you clean up all this rubbish before you leave tonight.
Where does rubbish come from?
The first records of the term rubbish come from around 1350. It is thought to come from the Middle English rubbes, as does rubble. Rubbish usually refers to smaller particles of trash, while rubble describes large pieces of debris, such as chunks of masonry after a building has been demolished.
When rubbish is used figuratively to criticize something, it frequently refers to text or speech, as in That article is utter rubbish. But it can also refer to a piece of media as in, That film was rubbish. Rubbish is used more commonly in the United Kingdom than in the United States or other English-speaking nations, although it is still used worldwide in moderation.
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What are some other forms related to rubbish?
- rubbishy (adjective)
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How is rubbish used in real life?
Rubbish is a commonly used word to mean either trash or nonsense.
sometimes the only solution to a rubbish day is going home to eat a lot of chocolate and climbing into bed
— M A R I N A (@MarinaDiamandis) January 25, 2019
Somebody bought a lotto ticket and thought he put it in the bin then spent 15 mins sifting through rubbish and found it in his pocket (me)
— Phil Lester (@AmazingPhil) January 8, 2016
Rubbish decision to send off Mané. Rubbish.
— Gary Lineker 💙💛 (@GaryLineker) September 9, 2017
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Is rubbish used correctly in the following sentence?
These decisions the mayor keeps making are absolute rubbish.
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Other Idioms and Phrases with rubbish
see good riddance (to bad rubbish).