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Rubbish vs Garbage - What's the difference?

rubbish | garbage |

Garbage is a synonym of rubbish.



As nouns the difference between rubbish and garbage

is that rubbish is garbage, junk, refuse, waste while garbage is {{cx|obsolete|lang=en}} The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

As verbs the difference between rubbish and garbage

is that rubbish is to denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage while garbage is to eviscerate.

As an adjective rubbish

is exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.

As an interjection rubbish

is expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.

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

    garbage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * garbidge

    Noun

    (-)
  • The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  • Food waste material of any kind.
    • Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
    • The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
  • A place or receptacle for waste material.
    • He threw the newspaper into the garbage .
  • Nonsense; gibberish.
  • (often, attributively) Something or someone worthless.
  • * 2009 , David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips , ISBN 9780967851488, p. 8:
    • Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.

    Synonyms

    * junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste * See also

    Antonyms

    * artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable

    Derived terms

    * garbage bag * garbage bin * garbage can * garbage collect * garbage collector * garbage collection * garbage disposal * garbage dump * * garbage man * garbage mitt * garbage scow * garbage time * garbage truck * garbo * garbologist

    Verb

    (garbag)
  • (obsolete) To eviscerate.
  • * 1674 , , ''The Passenger Pigeon , 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
    • I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

    Synonyms

    * gut * disembowel * eviscerate

    See also

    * American English