rubbage

English

Etymology

Possibly from rubb(ish) +‎ -age (suffix forming nouns with the sense of collection or appurtenance).[1]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌbɪd͡ʒ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌbɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɹə-/
Hyphenation: rub‧bage

Noun

rubbage (usually uncountable, plural rubbages)

(now dialectal) Alternative form of rubbish
- 1646, John Hall, “A Satire”, in Poems, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, for J. Rothwell, […], OCLC 702194630; republished London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816, OCLC 702794777, book I, page 34:
  E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, [...]
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182, page 65:
  "And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?" / "No, sah—nuffn' else."
- [1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, OCLC 715577589; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, OCLC 867955333, part I, page 17:
  Simply because as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstoryshortener, he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubbages on to soil here.]
- 1959 June, Peter R. Samson, “An Abridged Dictionary of the TMRC Language”, in Personal Web Page of Peter R. Samson‎, published September 2005, archived from the original on 18 January 2019:
  CRUFT: that which magically amounds in the Clubroom just before you walk in to clean up. In other words, rubbage. / [September 2005 commentary]: [...] Rubbage is a rare term for rubbish, but I had heard it used growing up in New England.
- 1974, G[erald] B[asil] Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, London: Hamish Hamilton, published 1981, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: New York Review Books, 2007, →ISBN, page 209:
  I didn't want him to buy any more rubbage.

References

“rubbish, n., adj., and int.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.

Anagrams

Burbage, bug-bear, bugbear

[1] “rubbish, n., adj., and int.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.

单词	rubbage
释义	rubbage English Etymology Possibly from rubb(ish) +‎ -age (suffix forming nouns with the sense of collection or appurtenance).[1] Pronunciation (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌbɪd͡ʒ/ (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌbɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɹə-/ Hyphenation: rub‧bage Noun rubbage (usually uncountable, plural rubbages) (now dialectal) Alternative form of rubbish 1646, John Hall, “A Satire”, in Poems, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, for J. Rothwell, […], OCLC 702194630; republished London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816, OCLC 702794777, book I, page 34: E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, [...] 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182, page 65: "And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?" / "No, sah—nuffn' else." [1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, OCLC 715577589; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, OCLC 867955333, part I, page 17: Simply because as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstoryshortener, he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubbages on to soil here.] 1959 June, Peter R. Samson, “An Abridged Dictionary of the TMRC Language”, in Personal Web Page of Peter R. Samson‎, published September 2005, archived from the original on 18 January 2019: CRUFT: that which magically amounds in the Clubroom just before you walk in to clean up. In other words, rubbage. / [September 2005 commentary]: [...] Rubbage is a rare term for rubbish, but I had heard it used growing up in New England. 1974, G[erald] B[asil] Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, London: Hamish Hamilton, published 1981, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: New York Review Books, 2007, →ISBN, page 209: I didn't want him to buy any more rubbage. References “rubbish, n., adj., and int.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011. Anagrams Burbage, bug-bear, bugbear
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