Rub"bish (?), a. Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy. De Quincey.
Rub"bish (?), n. [OE.
robows, robeux, rubble, originally an Old French plural from an assumed dim. of robe, probably in the sense
of trash; cf. It. robaccia trash,
roba stuff, goods, wares, robe. Thus, etymologically rubbish is the pl. of rubble. See Robe, and cf. Rubble.]
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.
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