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Rubbish
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy. De Quincey.