RUBBISH, RUBBISHY
ADJECTIVES
1548 — BAGGAGE rubbishy, refuse → obs.
1555 — DUNGHILL worthless; trashy; filthy; of the nature of rubbish or refuse
1573 — BAGGAGELY rubbishy, worthless → obs.
1577 — BALDUCTUM trashy, rubbishy → obs.
1577 — PELFISH rubbishy, paltry → obs.
1596 — SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE confused, incoherent, nonsensical, rubbishy
1716 — QUISQUILIAN of the nature of rubbish or refuse → obs.
1727 — RUDERARY pertaining to rubbish; consisting of rubbish
1802 — QUISQUILIOUS of the nature of rubbish or refuse
1817 — QUISQUILIARY of the nature of rubbish or refuse → obs.
1859 — CAGMAG inferior, second-rate, spurious; unwholesome, decaying; coarse, worthless, rubbishy → Eng. dial.
1870 — BAGMENTALLY rubbishy, worthless; usually applied to persons → Eng. dial.
1905 — MIDDENED UP covered or smothered with dirt or rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — OFFALDY of the nature of refuse; rubbishy, worthless → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — OFFALING of the nature of refuse; rubbishy, worthless → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TING-TANGLY worthless, rubbishy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1928 — CRAPPY worthless, rubbishy; awful, dreadful → colloq., orig. US
1936 — TURDISH unpleasant, obnoxious; rubbishy, worthless
1990 — LURPY rubbishy; looking bad or ugly → sl.
1990 — PANTS rubbish, second-rate, inferior → sl.
2000 — TURKISH (DELIGHT) rubbishy → rhyming sl. for ‘shite’
NOUNS
1370 — RAMMEL rubbish of any kind → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1390 — MULLOCK refuse matter, rubbish → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1420 — RAFF worthless material, trash, rubbish, refuse → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1440 — RASCAL rubbish, refuse → obs.
1472 — WRACK rubbish; waste material; that which is of an inferior, poor, or worthless quality
1538 — FULYIE the sweepings of the street; rubbish; filth
1542 — TRISH-TRASH trash, rubbish, worthless stuff → obs.
1549 — BAGGAGE rubbish, refuse, dirt → obs.
1556 — PALTRY refuse, rubbish, trash; anything worthless → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1581 — OFFAL the parts of slaughtered or dead animals unfit for food; putrid flesh; carrion; used contemptuously; also, the bodies or limbs of the slain
1583 — GARBIDGE garbage, refuse; filth
1583 — GARBISH garbage, refuse; filth
1632 — BUMBY a quagmire; also, a rubbish heap or compost heap
1634 — BAUBLE a thing or article of no value; a paltry piece of rubbish, something worthless
1641 — MIDDEN any place or receptacle for dirt and rubbish; the cesspool of a privy → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1641 — PALTREMENT worthless stuff, rubbish → obs.
1674 — OFFSCOURINGS filth or defilement cleaned off and cast aside; refuse, rubbish
1691 — LASTAGE garbage, rubbish → obs.
1736 — CULCH rubbish, refuse → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1769 — BAGRIE trash; worthless rubbish → Sc.
1786 — TWADDLE something worthless or trashy; rubbish
1788 — GARSIL rubbish → Eng. dial.
..19C — RABBLE-RASH rubbishy stuff → Eng. dial.
..19C — RAFFAGE rubbish, refuse, odds and ends → Eng. dial.
..19C — TAG-RAG rubbish → Eng. dial.
1815 — SCAFF refuse, worthless rubbish → Sc.
1817 — CAFF refuse, rubbish of any kind; refuse or unsaleable fish → Eng. dial.
1825 — GLORY-HOLE a place for rubbish or odds and ends → Eng. dial.
1841 — DALDOES useless ornaments, such as embroidered chair-backs, tassels, etc.; also, rubbish → Sc.
1842 — SCROFF odds and ends; rubbish, refuse, waste → Eng. dial.
1844 — BELLY-MUCK refuse, rubbish → Eng. dial.
1848 — RAFFLE of things: rubbish, refuse; worthless stuff
1851 — CAGMAG bad, unwholesome food; refuse of any kind; anything worthless, valueless, or rubbishy; rubbish; scraps; odds and ends → sl.
1852 — KEDGE trash, rubbish → Eng. dial.
1859 — REDD rubbish, litter, remains → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1861 — BLATHER — BLATTER — BLETHER soft mud, dirty rubbish of any kind → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1870 — BAGMENT rubbish, worthless things → Eng. dial.
1870 — HEAP O’ NOUGHT anything that is worthless, rubbish, or nonsense → Eng. dial.
1873 — KECK rubbish → Eng. dial.
1884 — SCOULE — SCOWLE — SKOLE rubbish → Eng. dial. obs.
1886 — COUP a place where rubbish is deposited; a rubbish dump or tip
1888 — BAGGERMENT rubbish, worthless things → Eng. dial.
1890 — CLOBBER equipment; ‘gear’; rubbish → sl.
1890 — SHIT rubbish, trash; something regarded as worthless → sl.
1891 — VARG a mess, an untidy mix-up, dirt, rubbish → Sc.
1895 — PAG-MAG a collection of rubbish; odds and ends → Eng. dial.
1898 — CAB-HOLE a receptacle for rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DEVILTRY rubbish; any undesirable object → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DIBBLE-DABBLE rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DILSH rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — GOB rubbish, refuse → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — SCULCH — SKULCH refuse, junk, rubbish, trash, worthless stuff → Amer. dial.
1902 — KABBER rubbish, a heap or conglomeration of rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — REFUGE-BASKET a basket for putting rubbish into → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCRIFF-SCRAFF odds and ends; rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — HAFFICK tangle, confusion, rubbish, litter → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — PALT — PAULT refuse, rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RAIT rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RUBBAGE rubbish → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — UDDER a heap of rubbish, etc → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1906 — SCHLOCK — SHLOCK rubbish; inferior goods; anything that is cheap and nasty or tasteless → Brit. sl.
1908 — RAMMATREK rubbish, trash → Sc.
1913 — CULCH rubbish → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1920 — MAGOOZLUM rubbish, trash → US sl.
1941 — CHUFFER rubbish, trash → Amer. dial.
1943 — CRUD anything inferior, worthless, or ugly; rubbish, trash, junk → Amer. sl.
.M20 — PILE OF SHIT junk; anything worthless → US sl.
1950 — AIRMAIL garbage (and, in prison, human waste) that is thrown out of windows, esp. in tenements and prison, instead of being taken to dustbins, loaded into disposal chutes, etc. → UK & US sl.
1950 — DOODLEY-SHIT — DOODLY-SHIT anything worthless or insignificant; rubbish → sl., orig. US
1958 — GASH rubbish, refuse → Antarctica usage
1960 — GRUNGE dirt; filth; rubbish → sl.
1968 — FLY-TIPPING the deliberate dumping of rubbish in an unauthorized place
1969 — GUNGE a sticky mass; any messy substance; rubbish, clutter, filth → sl.
1978 — TURD rubbish, trash; something regarded as worthless, inferior, or of no value
1981 — BONY PILE a rubbish heap → Amer. dial.
1990 — CACK rubbish, dirt, filth → sl.
1994 — DOOKIE — DOOKY — DUKEY rubbish, trash → US sl.
1998 — PIECE OF SHIT junk → teen sl. (Bk.)
..L20 — TACK something tacky or cheap and seedy or vulgar; rubbish, junk → colloq.
1999 — FLEMINGTON CONFETTI rubbish, nonsense, bulldust → Victoria, Aust. sl. (Bk.)
2003 — CLAG excreta, faeces; rubbish → UK sl.
2006 — DRECK dirt; garbage; faeces → US sl. (Bk.)
2007 — BOBBINS rubbish; worthless items → UK sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON (includes ‘dustman’)
..E19 — FANTAIL-BOY a dustman → sl.
1851 — HILL-MAN a foreman in a dust-yard
1851 — HILL-WOMAN a woman who lives on a hill or belongs to a hill-tribe; also, a forewoman in a dust-yard
1898 — ASH-MAN the dustman, scavenger → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — CAFFLER a dealer in rubbish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1940 — GARBO a dustman; a collector of rubbish → Aust. sl.
1965 — GARBOLOGIST a dustman; a rubbish collector
1965 — GARBIOLOGIST a dustman
1966 — BINMAN a refuse collector → sl.
1969 — SCAVENGER a private garbage collector → Amer. dial.
1975 — SANITATION ENGINEER a garbage and trash collector → US euphemism
1975 — SANITATION WORKER a garbage collector → euphemism
1978 — SANMAN a municipal garbage and trash collector → US colloq.
1985 — FLY-TIPPER a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
VERBS
1898 — CAFFLE to deal in ‘caff’ or rubbish; to deal in unsaleable fish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — JUNK to treat as junk or rubbish; to scrap, to throw away; to discard, to abandon, to get rid of
1968 — AIRMAIL to throw rubbish from the upper windows of a building to the courtyard below → US sl.