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Webster'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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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