folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop
(noun) nonsensical talk or writing
rubbish, trash, scrap
(noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of
rubbish
(verb) attack strongly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
rubbish (usually uncountable, plural rubbishes)
(chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
Synonym: Thesaurus:trash
(by extension, chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) An item, or items, of low quality.
(by extension, chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Nonsense.
Synonym: Thesaurus:nonsense
(archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings.
rubbish (comparative more rubbish, superlative most rubbish)
(chiefly, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.
Synonyms: abysmal, crappy, horrendous, shitty, terrible; see also bad, low-quality
rubbish (chiefly, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial)
Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.
Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!
Synonyms: bollocks, bullshit
rubbish (third-person singular simple present rubbishes, present participle rubbishing, simple past and past participle rubbished)
(transitive, chiefly, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage. [from c. 1950s (Australia, New Zealand)]
Source: Wiktionary
Rub"bish, n. Etym: [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.]
Definition: 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.
Rub"bish, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
Decaffeinated coffee is not caffeine-free. Studies from the National Institute of Health (US) have shown that virtually all decaf coffee types contain caffeine. A 236-ml (8-oz) cup of decaf coffee contains up to 7 mg of caffeine, whereas a regular cup provided 70-140 mg.
