rubbish

Meanings

Noun

• Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
• An item, or items, of low quality.
• Nonsense.
• Debris or ruins of buildings.

Adjective

• Exceedingly bad; awful.

Interjection

• ; balderdash!, nonsense!

Verb

• To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.

Origin

• From Middle English robous ("rubbish, building rubble"), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse, and compare Late Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear.
• The verb is derived from the noun.