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Muck vs Rubbish - What's the difference?

muck | rubbish | Synonyms |

Muck is a synonym of rubbish.


As nouns the difference between muck and rubbish

is that muck is slimy mud while rubbish is garbage, junk, refuse, waste.

As verbs the difference between muck and rubbish

is that muck is to shovel muck while rubbish is to denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

As an adjective rubbish is

(chiefly|au|nz|british|colloquial) exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.

As an interjection rubbish is

(colloquial) expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.

muck

English

Noun

(-)
  • Slimy mud.
    • The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
    I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
  • Soft or slimy manure.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
    • What's that green muck on the floor?
  • Anything filthy or vile.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete, derogatory) money
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • the fatal muck we quarrelled for

    Derived terms

    * mucky * where there's muck there's brass

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shovel muck.
    • We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
  • To manure with muck.
  • To do a dirty job.
  • (poker, colloquial) To pass (gloss, give one's cards back to the dealer).

    • Derived terms

    * muck about * muck around * muck in * muck out * muck up * mucker * muckraker * mucky * muck spreader * common as muck * where there's muck there's brass ----

    rubbish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, AU, NZ, British, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.
    • This has been a rubbish day, and it's about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.

    Interjection

  • (colloquial) Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
    • The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson.
    Aw, rubbish ! Though at least this means you have time to play football...
  • Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
    • Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

    Synonyms

    * (expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense) nonsense, bullshit, bollocks

    Noun

    (wikipedia rubbish) (-)
  • Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
    • The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
  • 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?
  • Fragments of buildings; ruins; debris.
  • * Dryden
    • He saw the town's one half in rubbish lie.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * rubbish bin

    Related terms

    * rubble

    Verb

    (es)
  • To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

    • Derived terms

    * rubbisher

    References