RUBBISH

n. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.

2.
a.

Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy. De Quincey.


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