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Rubbish vs Rubish - What's the difference?

rubbish | rubish |

As adjectives the difference between rubbish and rubish

is that rubbish is exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy while rubish is like a rube.

As an interjection rubbish

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

As a noun rubbish

is garbage, junk, refuse, waste.

As a verb rubbish

is to denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

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

    rubish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a rube.
  • * 1992 , Donald Barthelme, Kim A. Herzinger, The teachings of Don B.
    • I suppose I am a rubish hayseed in some sense, full of down-home notions that contradict the more sophisticated notions of my colleagues.