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Definition: Rubbish |
RubbishNoun1. Worthless material that is discarded. 2. Nonsensical talk or writing. Verb1. Attack strongly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rubbish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Satire | RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of rubbish, denotes that you will badly manage your affairs. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Environment | Solid waste, excluding food waste and ashes, from homes, institutions, and workplaces. (references) |
| Consumer waste regularly arising in dwellings, staff rooms, restaurants, etc. and which can be placed in an ordinary waste container, for example, refuse sack, dustbin; contains, for example, food scraps, scraps of paper, empties; cf. bulky waste. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Waste is unwanted or undesired material left over after the completion of a process.
Waste can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas. When released as a liquid or gas, waste is referred to as emissions. Identifying waste is a subjective matter, and waste is only defined as such when perceived as such. Some see waste as a negative externality, but it can also be viewed as a potential resource as in industrial ecology.
Natural waste and Human waste
Waste produced in the wild is reintegrated through natural recycling processes, such as dry leaves in a forest decomposing into soil. Outside of the wild these wastes may become problematic, such as dry leaves in an urban environment. The highest volume of waste, outside of nature, comes from human industrial activity: mining waste, industrial waste, post-consumer waste, and so on. Most manufactured products are destined to become waste at some point in time, with a volume of waste production roughly similar to the volume of resource consumption.Sustainable use requires a system view of environment issues. Let's suppose a consumer has a choice between apples coming from his own country, and those imported by ship. Which apple would consume the most energy to acquire? It depends on the consumer: if he goes by bicycle to the shop, the homegrown apple requires less energy. However, if he goes to buy the apple by car, it might be that the energy requirement of the car from home to the shop be higher than the energy required to import the apple to the shop, not even counting CO2 emissions.
Solid wastes and emission wastes
When one considers that every product ends up as waste, it might be a good idea to analyse matter entering the production cycle, rather than analysing wastes that are usually diluted as a result of the process. For example, a consumer buying products containing heavy metals in small quantities will probably not detect these heavy metals in the resulting waste. An analysis of products entering the production system, and a guarantee from the provider, might be a wiser approach to prevent the final pollution (example : a farmer receiving sewage sludge to landfill on some of his field for fertilizing; the sewage sludge analysis is more likely to reveal the pollution than the soil itself after a couple of years) (see also The Natural Step).
Solid wastes : to eliminate, to reuse, to avoid
Post-consumer waste is the waste produced by the end-user (the garbage one puts outside in the trash can). This is the waste people usually think of. But though the most visible, this is very small compare to the waste created in the process of mining and production.The ecological rucksack of industrial production is the total amount of waste related to a good in the course of its life cycle. For some metals, such as gold, the rucksack can be of a volume of 500 000 times the volume of metal extracted. For each gram of gold produced, 500 kg of mining waste is produced, containing other heavy metals which may pollute the atmosphere in their powdered form. These manufacturing wastes are by far the greatest output of many industrial production systems. In the United States, 93% of natural resources extracted are never transformed in goods, 80% of goods sold are thrown away after only one use, 99% of resources in a good are "waste" within 6 weeks of sale. There are very large potential gains in eco-efficiency, increasing the ratio of production unit per unit of natural resource, and decreasing the ratio of waste generated as a by-product. But mining waste is often perceived as waste only in case of an ecological crisis or as undesirable emissions.
Industry is slowly moving toward better use of its wastes. Industrial ecology for example is a method which consists of using the waste of a factory (matter or heat) as resources for another factory. (See the industrial district of Kalundborg in Sweden). Most wastes issues are due to products rejected outside of the manufacturing process, or those for which industries do not feel responsible: disposable packaging, free goods for advertisement. Shifting from service leasing rather than goods selling might be a solution.
Types of waste
Industrial waste -- Chemical waste -- Toxic waste -- municipal waste -- Greywater -- medical waste -- used oil -- batteries -- mining waste -- garbage (see: Waste) -- radioactive waste -- tires.
Treatment and control
landfill -- combustion -- composting -- recycling
See also
waste management - full-cost accounting - waste minimization - waste-matching - Downcycling - Lifecycle assessment - Post-consumer waste - Pre-consumer waste - Product lifecycle - Product life -- By-product - Waste DTD - Pay-as-you-throw - public bad -- willingness-to-pay -- Waste vegetable oil .
Autonomous building - Clean design
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Waste."
Synonyms: RubbishSynonyms: applesauce (n), codswallop (n), folderol (n), trash (n), tripe (n), trumpery (n), wish-wash (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inutility | Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads. |
Relinquishment | Discards, culls, rejects; garbage, refuse, rubbish. |
Unimportance | Trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse; (inutility); scum; (dirt). |
Unmeaningness | Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility). |
Waste | Noun: consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion; ebb; leakage; (exudation); loss; wear and tear; waste; prodigality; misuse; wasting; Verb: rubbish; (useless). mountain in labor. |
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Screenplays | Boo! Boo! Rubbish! Filth (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) All the rubbish people keep sticking in my head, it's a wonder there's any room for my brain (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I'm at work. I really need to talk to you What day's rubbish day (Kath & Kim; writing credit: Gina Riley; Jane Turner) Women are rubbish, Geordie (Our Friends in the North; writing credit: Peter Flannery) Rubbish! They're simply not stepping up the reception sufficiently to enable (The Man with the Golden Gun; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Lyrics | The tips he gets turn out to be rubbish (Never all there; performing artist: General Public) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love and Rubbish (1913) Rubbish (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The world's children: on a Korean rubbish heap. / UNICEF photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Villagers Shooting out their Rubbish.!!! / G. Cruikshank fecit. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Uncle Sam picking up Mexican revolutionists with a shovel for the international rubbish can. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Poor white hallway, Georgetown, D.C. Seldom do these people have even the desire to clear up rubbish, and the broom shown here seems to be out of place. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woodstock, Vermont. Horse of a garbage and rubbish collector. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "The Binman" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "A rubbish collector in london." |
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| Author | Quotation |
George Eliot | Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Large quantities of similar rubbish lay lumbering the floor |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is true that this end of the beach was masked from sight by a mound of rubbish from six to seven feet high, the product of some demolition |
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Rubbish! screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside. |
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| "Rubbish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.91% of the time. "Rubbish" is used about 2,257 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.91% | 2,255 | 3,914 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,257 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rubbish": clear a yard of rubbish ♦ garden rubbish ♦ household rubbish ♦ piece of rubbish ♦ rubbish bin ♦ rubbish cart ♦ rubbish chute ♦ rubbish collection ♦ rubbish dump ♦ rubbish heap ♦ rubbish pulley ♦ rubbish tip ♦ talk rubbish. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rubbish": rubbish-as-fuel, rubbish-bag, rubbish-bin, rubbish-burning, rubbish-chute, rubbish-collection, rubbish-collectors, rubbish-dumping, rubbish-mongering, rubbish-per-head, rubbish-strewn, rubbish-tip. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "rubbish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubble, secede, waste, windfall). (various references) | |
Albanian | rraqurina, plehra (dust, garbage, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, sweeping, sweepings, tailings, trash, waste), mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, leavings, litter, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, tailings, waste, wrack), hedhurina (junk, mullock, offal, refuse, rejectamenta, throw out, truck), gomarllëk (foolishness, nonsense, stupidity), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), gjëra pa vlerë. (various references) | |
Arabic | هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), نفاية (chaff, dump, garbage, junk, outcast, refuse, riffraff, scouring, short, slush, soil, swill, trash, waste), قمامة (garbage, muck, mud, refuse, soil, sweeping, sweepings, swill, trash), قاذورات (garbage, sweepings, trash), سقط المتاع (junk, lumber, offal, raffle, stuff, tat, trash, write off), سخف (puerility), زبالة (garbage, trash), أنقاض (debris, rubble, scrap, spoil), بضاعة زهيدة القيمة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смет (dirt, dust, litter, mullock, offal, raffle, refuse, rejectamenta, sweepings), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), отпадъци (carrion, dregs, dross, garbage, husks, junk, leavings, litter, offal, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, trash, waste, write-offs), боклук (dirt, dross, dud, fug, garbage, junk heap, litter, mullock, odd-come-shorts, punk, raffle, scrap heap, shoddy, spilth, trash, tripe, waste), безсмислици (baloney, bilge, gibberish, tripe). (various references) | |
Chinese | 垃圾 (garbage, trash), 廢話 (nonsense, superfluous words), 廢物 . (various references) | |
Czech | smetí (garbage, litter, sweep, sweepings, trash), odpadky (garbage, litter, oddments, offal, offscourings, refuse, trash, trimmings), nesmysl (absurdity, balderdash, bunk, nonsense, nuts, rot, tripe, trumpery), brak (defective products, dog, junk, trash, waste). (various references) | |
Danish | skrald (debris, rubble), mineaffald (attle, burrow, colliery wastes), husaffald (refuse), dagrenovation (refuse). (various references) | |
Dutch | rommel (chaos, clippings, confusion, cuttings, debris, disorder, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubble, tangle, waste, windfall), puin (debris, rubble), prullaria (debris, rubble), afval (apostasy, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ruboj (old materials), rubo (debris, rubble), sarkindaĵo (garbage, refuse, waste), forĵetindaĵo (garbage, leavings, refuse, waste), forĵetaĵo (refuse, waste), elĵetaĵo (refuse, waste), defalaĵo (clippings, cuttings, parings, refuse, waste, windfall). (various references) | |
Faeroese | rusk (debris, rubble). (various references) | |
Farsi | چیزپست وبی ارزش (Dregs), زباله (Dump, Garbage, Ordure), اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tenure, Tot, Trash), بی ارزش (Junky, Naught, Nothing, Punk, Tripe, Unvalued). (various references) | |
Finnish | roska (litter, trash), romu (junk, lumber), roju (litter), roina, törky (dirt, filth, garbage, refuse, trash), sivukivi (attle, bur, burr, burrow, country rock, country rocks, enclosing rock, gangue, native rock, partition rock, rocky matrix, surrounding rocks, wall rock), pöty (nonsense), malmiton kivi (attle, burrow), kiinteistöjäte (refuse), jätteet (garbage, leavings, offal, refuse, table scraps), hylkykivi (attle, burrow), harme (attle, brood, burrow, gangue, matrix, rocky matrix). (various references) | |
French | ordures (rubble), décombres (rubble), déchets, absurdité. (various references) | |
Frisian | ôffal (apostasy, apostate, clippings, cuttings, defection, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, waste, windfall), ôfeart (clippings, cuttings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, waste, windfall). (various references) | |
German | Schutt (debris, detrital, detritus, gravel, grit, rubble), Müll (debris, dust, garbage, junk, midden, refuse, rubble, trash, waste), Kehricht (sweepings), Abfall (apostasy, breakaway, breaking away, declension, defection, drop, garbage, litter, offal, offall, refuse, slide, trash, wastage, waste). (various references) | |
Greek | σκουπίδια (garbage, junk, litter, refuse, sweepings, trash). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שטויות (applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bunk, drivel, moonshine, nonsense, nuts, rot, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery), פסולת (dregs, junk, litter, offal, refuse, riffraff, sweepings, trash, waste), אשפה (dirt, dung, dunghill, garbage, litter, refuse, sweepings, trash, waste), זבל (compost, dung, excrement, garbage, manure, ordure, trash), סוחה (dung, filth, garbage), סחי (dirt, dung, filth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemét (dreck, dross, garbage, have no end of money, litter, offal, punk, rubbishy, scum, sleaze, sleazo, sleazy, snotty, sodding, stinky, sweepings, trash). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fjarstæða (absurdity, nonsense). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sampah (carrion, garbage, litter, trash). (various references) | |
Italian | spazzatura (dust, garbage, junk mail, trash), rifiuti (cull, garbage, litter, offal, refuse, sweepings, swill, trash), macerie (detrital, old, old materials, rubble, ruin, wreckage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 駄作 (poor work). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がらくた (junk, trash), ぐさく (inane plan, poor work), ごみ (garbage, trash), じんかい (this drab world, trash), ちりあくた (trash), ださく (poor work). (various references) | |
Korean | 졸작. (various references) | |
Manx | trustyr (deads, debris, dirt, dross, filth, garbage, junk, muck, muckiness, nastiness, refuse, scrap, trash, trash rubbish), trouise (crowd, dowdy, literary garbage, rot, slattern, sloven, trollop, trumpery; trash, trumpery; trash of person), mollid (coarseness, hairs, jumble, luggage, lumber, roughness, rummage), boanlagh (litter, lumber). (various references) | |
Norwegian | avfall (garbage, refuse, waste). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubbishray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lixo (filth, litter, offscourings, rejectamenta, sweeping, trash, waste). (various references) | |
Romanian | ruine (carcas, remain, remnant, ruins, wreckage), resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), rebuturi (leavings, rejection, throw out, waste), rebut (jetsam, refuse, reject, scrap, scum, spoilage, trash), necurãţenie (dirtiness), ciuruc (scamp, wretch), dãrâmãturi (carcas, remnant, ruin, wreck, wreckage), deşeuri (cutting, junk, loss, refuse, rejection, tailings, waste), fleac (a piece of cake, bauble, bunkum, chaff, doit, fillip, flapdoodle, flea-bite, flummery, fribble, kickshaw, knick knack, nil, nothing, nothingness, peppercorn, pin head, push over, rot, rubble, small beer, stiver, tittle tattle, trash, trifle, trinket), gunoi (carrion, dirt, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, manure, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, scum, soil, waste), hodoroagã (rattletrap), buc (garbage, slops), moloz (debris, rubble), vechituri (junk, lumber, odds and ends, pedlary, trash), prostii (apple-sauce, balderdash, bosh, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, fudge, gammon, moonshine, mush, nonsense, poppy-cock, rats, skittles, stuff and nonsense, tosh, trash, tripe), sanchi, umpluturã (filling, forcemeat, padding, stuffing), mai (afresh, again, all over again, anew, another, approximative, beater, beetle, else, heh, heyday, I say, mallet, may, more, no, oh my, once more, paddle, rammer, really, still). (various references) | |
Russian | вздор (all my eye, balderdash, baloney, blah, boloney, bosh, fiddlesticks, flimflam, fudge, gammon, humbug, jiggery pokery, kibosh, mush, nonsense, poppycock, rot, tommy rot, tommyrot, tosh). (various references) | |
Scottish | smùr (dross, dust), cosmal. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otpadak (recrement, refuse, trash), krš (detritus, karst, rubble), koještarije (trumpery), gluposti, đubre (dung, fertilizer, garbage, junk, laystall, muck, offscourings, ordure, sweepings, trash). (various references) | |
Spanish | basura (catlap, dirt, draff, dregs, dust, dustbin, garbage, junk, leak, litter, mullock, refuse, scourings, tat, trash, waste), desechos (clippings, cuttings, debris, parings, refuse, rejectamenta, remainder, rest, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references) | |
Swedish | rappakalja (mumbo jumbo), strunt (balderdash, blah, bosh, fiddlededee, garbage, piffle, pipsqueak, punk, rot, squirt), sopor (refuse, sweepings, trash), smörja (anoint, bilge, corn, crap, daub, dirt, dope, drivel, dub, fiddlededee, grease, junk, kitsch, lubricate, muck, oil, shoddy, smear, tosh, trash, tripe), skräp (debris, dross, duffer, garbage, junk, kitsch, litter, lumber, pulp, shoddy, trash, waste), larv (catepillar, caterpillar, grub, larva, nonsense), guano (guano, nonsense), gråberg (granite), goja (bosh), göra ner (crucify, do down, pull, slam, slate, take apart, tear to pieces, whip), gångart (pace), dumheter (all my eye, all my eyes, crap, fiddlesticks, nonsense). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งที่ไร้สาระ, ขยะ (garbage, scum). (various references) | |
Turkish | zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), süprüntü (brushing, candle-end, dreg, dregs, dross, garbage, offscourings, refuse, rejectamenta, sweepings, sweeps, trumpery), moloz (rubble), işe yaramaz şey (offcast, trash), enkaz (carcase, carcass, debris, salvage, wrack, wreck, wreckage), döküntü (debris, detritus, dilapidated, dreg, excuse, fall out, fallout, heap, junk, litter, refuse, residuum, rubble, scrap, skin eruption, spoils, sweeps, tot, waste), anlamsız söz (Abracadabra, gobbledygook, inanity, jabber wocky), çöp (brushing, chip, crud, discard, dregs, garbage, junk, leavings, litter, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, straw, trash, waste), ıvır zıvır (chaff, crap, dead wood, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadget, gadgetry, gadgety, gewgaw, Gubbins, junk, knick knack, knickknack, nicknack, odds and ends, small potatoes, trifles, trinket, trinkets). (various references) | |
Turkmen | makulatura. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мотлох (duds, lumber, odd-come-short, raff, rag, shoddy, shucks, wrack), дурниця (absurdity, absurdness, applesauce, balderdash, ballyhoo, bosh, buncombe, froth, humbug, mush, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, porridge, rigmarole, sappiness, shucks, slum, trash, tripe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rác rưởi vật vô giá trị, vật bỏ đi (cast-off, reject, rejectamenta), người tồi ý kiến bậy bạ, chuyện vô lý (nonsense). (various references) | |
Welsh | rwtsh (nonsense), rwbel (rubble), ysbwriel (refuse, trash), sothach (garbage, refuse, trash), ge+r (gear, tackle), cybo+l (nonsense). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | sahar. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | purgamenta, purgamentum, quisquiliae, quisquiliae, quisquiliarum, quisquilias. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | refus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Nehemiah Chapter 4, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai oi kataloipoi eqnwn wn apwkisen asennafar o megaV kai o timioV kai katwkisen autouV en polesin thV somorwn kai to kataloipon peran tou potamou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dixit autem Iudas debilitata est fortitudo portantis et humus nimia est et nos non poterimus aedificare murum |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Nehemiah Chapter 4, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Juda miingon: Ang kusog sa magdadala sa mga mabug-at nangaluya, ug may daghang sagbut; mao nga kita dili makahimo sa pagtukod sa kuta. |
| Croatian | Ali je od toga dana samo polovica mojih momaka obavljala posao, a ostali su držali koplja, štitove, lukove i oklope, a glavari stajali iza doma Judina, |
| Danish | Men Jøderne sagde: Lastdragernes Kræfter svigter, og Grusdyngerne er for store; vi kan ikke bygge på Muren! |
| Dutch | Toen zeide Juda: De kracht der dragers is vervallen, en des stofs is veel, zodat wij aan den muur niet zullen kunnen bouwen. |
| Finnish | Mutta Juuda sanoi: "Taakankantajain voima raukeaa, ja soraa on ylen paljon; me emme jaksa rakentaa muuria". |
| French | Cependant Juda disait: Les forces manquent à ceux qui portent les fardeaux, et les décombres sont considérables; nous ne pourrons pas bâtir la muraille. |
| German | Und Juda sprach: Die Kraft der Träger ist zu schwach, und des Schuttes ist zu viel; wir können nicht an der Mauer bauen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi orang Yehuda mulai menyanyikan lagu keluhan ini: "Tenaga kita habis untuk mengangkut muatan, sedangkan sampah masih banyak bertumpukan. Tak sanggup rasanya kita bekerja begini membangun tembok kota ini." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata orang Yehuda: Bahwa kuat orang penggandar itu surutlah dan adalah lagi amat banyak kerobohan batu; maka tiada kami dapat menyudahkan pagar tembok itu. |
| Italian | Da quel giorno la metà dei miei giovani lavorava e l'altra metà stava armata di lance, di scudi, di archi, di corazze; i capi erano dietro tutta la casa di Giuda. |
| Maori | Na ka mea a Hura, Kua hemo te kaha o nga kaipikau, e nui ana hoki te paru; na e kore matou e kaha ki te hanga i te taiepa. |
| Norwegian | Da sa jødene: Bærernes kraft svikter, og grushaugene er for store; vi makter ikke lenger å bygge på muren. |
| Portuguese | Então disse Judá: Desfalecem as forças dos carregadores, e há muito escombro; não poderemos edificar o muro. |
| Rumanian | Knsq Iuda zicea: ,,Puterile celor ce duc poverile slqbesc, wi dqrkmqturile sknt multe; nu vom putea sq zidim zidul.`` |
| Spanish | Pero los de Judá dijeron: --Las fuerzas de los acarreadores se han debilitado, y los escombros son muchos. Nosotros no podremos reedificar la muralla. |
| Swedish | Men judarna sade: "Bärarnas kraft sviker, och gruset är alltför mycket; vi förmå icke mer att bygga på muren." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rubbish": rubbishes, rubbishy. (additional references) | |
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"Rubbish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rabbah, Rabigh, rabish, roobish, rubbi, rubis, rubish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rubbish" (pronounced ru"bish) |
| 3 | -b i sh | refurbish, snobbish. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-h-i-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: hubris. | |
-2 letters: brush, buhrs, burbs, shrub. | |
-3 letters: bibs, bris, bubs, buhr, burs, bush, hubs, rhus, ribs, rubs, rush, shri, sibb, urbs. | |
-4 letters: bib, bis, bub, bur, bus, his, hub, rib, rub, sib, sir, sri, sub, urb. | |
-5 letters: bi, hi, is, sh, si, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-h-i-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: rubbishy. | |
+2 letters: rubbishes, shrubbier. | |
+3 letters: shrubbiest. | |
+4 letters: bitterbrush, rabbitbrush, semishrubby, shrubberies. | |
+5 letters: brushability, bunchberries. | |
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