rubbish
/ˈɹʌbɪʃ/ noun B1- Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash. · The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
- An item, or items, of low quality. · Much of what they sell is utter rubbish.
- Nonsense. · Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?
Plural rubbishes
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It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
He could hear rustling and hissing in the rubbish all round him and gave the Call a second time, to make sure.
The screen-work broke and fell away in a cloud of dust and rubbish, and Mowgli leaped through the opening and flung himself between Baloo and Bagheera--an arm around each big neck.
By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make, Be sure, be sure, we’re going to do some splendid things!_
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