rubbish
US: /ˈɹəbɪʃ/
UK: /ɹˈʌbɪʃ/
UK: /ɹˈʌbɪʃ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
rubbish /'rʌbiʃ/
- danh từ
- vật bỏ đi, rác rưởi
- "shoot no rubbish ": "cấm đổ rác"
- vật vô giá trị, người tồi
- a good riddance of bad rubbish: sự tống khứ một người mình ghét, sự tống khứ được một kẻ khó chịu
- ý kiến bậy bạ, chuyện vô lý, chuyện nhảm nhí
- to talk rubbish: nói bậy nói bạ
- oh, rubbish!: vô lý!, nhảm nào!
- (từ lóng) tiền
- vật bỏ đi, rác rưởi
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
[U]
1 (especially BrE) things that you throw away because you no longer want or need them: a rubbish bag / bin + a rubbish dump / heap / tip + The streets were littered with rubbish. + garden / household rubbish
See also -
2 (BrE, informal) (also used as an adjective) something that you think is of poor quality: I thought the play was rubbish! + Do we have to listen to this rubbish music? + They said I was a rubbish boss.
3 (BrE, informal) comments, ideas, etc. that you think are stupid or wrong
Synonym: NONSENSE
Rubbish! You're not fat! + You're talking a load of rubbish! + It's not rubbish-it's true!
+ verb (AmE trash) [VN] (BrE, informal) to criticize sb/sth severely or treat them as though they are of no value: The book was rubbished by the critics. + He rubbished all my ideas, saying they were impractical.
BRITISH / AMERICAN
rubbish / garbage / trash / refuse
Rubbish is the usual word in BrE for the things that you throw away because you no longer want or need them. Garbage and trash are both used in AmE. Inside the home, garbage tends to mean waste food and other wet material, while trash is paper, cardboard and dry material.
In BrE, you put your rubbish in a dustbin in the street to be collected by the dustmen. In AmE, your garbage and trash goes in a garbage / trash can in the street and is collected by garbage men / collectors.
Refuse is a formal word and is used in both BrE and AmE. Refuse collector is the formal word for a dustman or garbage collector.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 refuse, waste, debris, rubble, detritus, litter, garbage, sweepings, dross, dregs, residue, leftovers, remnants, lees, scraps, fragments, leavings, residuum, junk, rejects, Chiefly US trash Slang chiefly US dreck:
Private companies are now contracted to remove household rubbish weekly
2 (stuff and) nonsense, balderdash, moonshine, gibberish, gobbledegook or gobbledygook, tommy-rot, bunkum, trash, garbage, twaddle, Colloq rot, flapdoodle, crap, hokum, codswallop, bosh, piffle, hooey, bunk, malarkey, poppycock, boloney or baloney, eyewash, hogwash, bilge-water, bull, Scots havers, Brit tosh, gammon, US a crock, horse feathers, gurry, Slang rot, Brit (a load of (old)) cobblers, Taboo Slang bullshit, horseshit, US a crock of shit:
What she told you about how I treated her is absolute rubbish.
v.
3 criticize, attack, destroy, Colloq clobber, pan, Chiefly US trash, Slang jump on, Chiefly US and Canadian bad-mouth, jump all over:
In his latest book he rubbishes the newspaper that had given his previous book a bad review.
Collocation dictionary
1 waste material
ADJ.
domestic, household | garden
QUANT.
bag, pile | tons
VERB + RUBBISH
put out
I forgot to put the rubbish out last night.
| collect, remove, take away
The rubbish is collected on Tuesdays.
| clear (out), dispose of, dump, throw (away/out)
He's clearing rubbish out of the attic. Someone had dumped their rubbish by the road. Throw the rubbish in the bin.
| leave, strew (around)
There was rubbish strewn around everywhere.
| pick up
RUBBISH + VERB
decay, rot
RUBBISH + NOUN
bag, bin, skip | dump, heap, tip | collection, disposal | chute
2 sth that you think is bad/silly/wrong
ADJ.
absolute, complete, total, utter
The film was absolute rubbish.
| worthless
Many critics see the paintings as worthless rubbish.
| old
The antique shop was just full of old rubbish.
VERB + RUBBISH
talk
Don't talk such rubbish!
PREP.
~ about
the usual rubbish about his undiscovered talents
PHRASES
a load of (old) rubbish, What rubbish!
Concise English dictionary
'rʌbɪʃ
noun
+worthless material that is to be disposed of
+nonsensical talk or writing
verb
+attack strongly
