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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

absurdity, afterglow, afterimage, amphigory, attack, babble, babblement, bad-mouth, balance, balderdash, baloney, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bosh, bric-a-brac, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, butt, butt end, candle ends, castaway, castoff, cattle, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit, clamjamfry, claptrap, clobber, crap, criticize, debris, derelict, destroy, details, detritus, discard, dogie, double-talk, dregs, dregs of society, drivel, drool, dross, dust, end, eyewash, fag end, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, filings, flapdoodle, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, flummery, folderol, fossil, foundling, fragments, froth, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gimcrackery, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, holdover, hooey, humbug, husks, jabber, jargon, jetsam, jump all over, jump on, junk, kelter, knickknackery, lagan, leavings, lees, leftovers, litter, lumber, malarkey, minutiae, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, offscum, orphan, orts, pack of nonsense, palaver, pan, pap, parings, peanuts, piffle, poppycock, prate, prattle, raff, rags, rant, refuse, reject, rejects, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, riffraff, rigamarole, rigmarole, roach, rodomontade, rot, rubble, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scrap, scraps, scum, shadow, shavings, shoddy, skimble-skamble, slop, small beer, small change, sordes, straw, stubble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, stump, survival, sweepings, swinish multitude, tommyrot, trace, trash, trifles, trivia, truck, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, vermin, vestige, waffling, waif, waifs and strays, waste, wastrel

Dictionary Results for rubbish:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

rubbish
    n 1: worthless material that is to be disposed of [syn:
         rubbish, trash, scrap]
    2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
       tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
       codswallop]
    v 1: attack strongly

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Rubbish \Rub"bish\, a.
   Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish;
   trashy. --De Quincey.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Rubbish \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; d['e]bris.
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         What rubbish and what offal!             --Shak.
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         he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. --Dryden.
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   Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.
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4. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)

RUBBISH, n.  Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies,
literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions
lying due south from Boreaplas.

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