rubbish

Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.

What traſh is Rome? / What Rubbiſh and what Offall? when it ſerues / For the baſe matter, to illuminate / So vile a thing as Cæsar.

An item, or items, of low quality.

Much of what they sell is rubbish.

[W]e may add that publications of this nature always contain much rubbiſh to make up the bulk; for to produce a neat collection of true wit, requires talents and judgment that would ſcarcely ſtoop to the taſk.

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?

I ſhall […] lay out of my way the whole bede-roll of citations and precedents which they have produced, that heterogeneous heap of rubbiſh, which is only calculated to confound your Lordſhips, and miſlead the argument.

Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.

That Antichriſt is a man exerciſing a kingdome, the head of the vniuerſall Apoſtaſie, […] the Romane monarchie being diuided and fallen downe, out of the rubbiſhes whereof, he is by litle & litle riſen & increaſed, thorow the power and forcible working of Sathan, […]

E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, […]

Exceedingly bad; awful.

This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.

Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.

Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

- The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson. - Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football.

Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

Rubbish, sir, rubbish! Pestilent and pernicious rubbish! An honest man must consider what he owes to his name and his rank. That is the first consideration.