Rabble vs Rubble - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rabble and rubble

is that rabble is a mob; a disorderly crowd while rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

(en noun)

A mob; a disorderly crowd.

The mass of common people; the lowest class of people.

* riffraff

* rabble rouser

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* English collective nouns

The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

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(geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

(Lyell)

(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

(Simmonds)

* reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubblework

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