Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
rubbish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Rubbish.
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- noun now dialectal Alternative form of
rubbish .
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Examples
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"And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?"
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"And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
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"And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10 Mark Twain 1872
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“And ain’t you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?”
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Early on in your career, people are going to tell you that you're rubbage, and you have to believe that you're not, even if you are.
Mike Ragogna: Let Them Talk: Chatting With House's Hugh Laurie, Dar Williams and The Axis of Awesome, Plus Cal Ecker's "Time After Time" Premiere Mike Ragogna 2011
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Overall, with the Roxy albums, we had a good hit rate, and sixty-five percent of it was really good, and the rest is average going down to rubbage.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond The Sun and Corroncho: Chatting with Chris Isaak and Phil Manzanera Mike Ragogna 2011
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Overall, with the Roxy albums, we had a good hit rate, and sixty-five percent of it was really good, and the rest is average going down to rubbage.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond The Sun and Corroncho: Chatting with Chris Isaak and Phil Manzanera Mike Ragogna 2011
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Early on in your career, people are going to tell you that you're rubbage, and you have to believe that you're not, even if you are.
Mike Ragogna: Let Them Talk: Chatting With House's Hugh Laurie, Dar Williams and The Axis of Awesome, Plus Cal Ecker's "Time After Time" Premiere Mike Ragogna 2011
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You have got pallets, Dumpsters, all kinds of trash, all kinds of rubbage, glass, all sorts of things.
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How come NO concrete floor pieces, metal filing cabinet pieces, and plastic wastebasket pieces were found in the rubbage, when there should have been TONS of that stuff?
Gammerstang commented on the word rubbage
(noun) - (1) Rubbish. Whether the form here given, or rubbige, be the better, it is neither worth contesting, nor possible to ascertain. Both are Old English and used even by very eminent bishops . . . Mr. Todd has taken the pains to vindicate both from the charge of corruption, facetiously but unfortunately made by Mr. Pegge. If there be any corruption at all, it is rubbish itself.
--Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
(2) From rub, as perhaps meaning, at first, dust made by rubbing.
--Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
(3) Provincial English; rubbrish was used in the exact sense of what we now usually call rubble, and the two words rubbish and rubble are closely connected. William Horman in his Vulgaria 1519 says that ". . . great rubbrysshe serveth to fyl up the myddell of the wall."
--Walter Skeat's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 1879
January 15, 2018