Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete, dialectal, or vulgar form of
rubbish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Rubbish.
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- noun Obsolete form of
rubbish .
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Examples
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An 'aw yerd her sing some mak' o 'stuff abaat luv, and sich like rubbidge.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Yo 'can tak' an 'praitch yor rubbidge somewheer else.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Old Reddy knows all about it -- that's why he's sendin 'Dick away to London an' I'll get him fetched back to see the last o 'you, an' I'll mek your father an 'his father shaake hands, an' then you'll come to, an 'after that what can they do but marry you to Dick, an' forget all that rubbidge about the brook, an 'live in peace together, as decent folk should do.'
Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray
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'Writing a parcel o' rubbidge for fools to speak, and other fools to laugh at. '
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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Come on, do -- you don't want to waste no more time over that rubbidge!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 Various
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I've often said to Samson as it was all rubbidge, a-keepin 'up a old quarrel like that, as keeps two dacent fam'lys at daggers drawn.
Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray
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'Ow you can patronise such rubbidge, _I_ don't know!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 Various
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"Sure and you'll be after rotting your poor brain with all that rubbidge," she said, rising to a more vehement protest when, in the middle of the night, she discovered
The Tragic Bride Francis Brett Young 1919
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"What rubbidge she do talk!" cried Honor, sharply.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
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"She's talkin 'rubbidge again," said Honor, chokingly.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
bilby commented on the word rubbidge
Isn't it about time we took umbrage
At neglect of our linguistic heritage?
But if your penchant for norms
Eschews archaic forms
You might be agin preserving this rubbidge.
July 11, 2022