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gubbish

noun

Etymology

Blend of garbage + rubbish, coined by Philip K. Dick in his 1964 novel Martian Time-Slip.

  1. derived from *rubbōną✻ — “to rub, scrape”
  2. derived from rubba — “to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”
  3. derived from rubous
  4. inherited from robous — “rubbish, building rubble”
  5. inherited from robous
  6. compounded as gubbish — “garbage + rubbish”

Definitions

  1. Anything worthless or incomprehensible

    Anything worthless or incomprehensible; junk.

    • All that kipple, gubbish, garble and abomination which Alice James Raccoona Tiptree Sheldon, Jr., showed for what it is when she appeared, smiling a little uncertainly, from her postbox in McLean, Virginia.
    • It rained gubbish, now; all was gubbish, wherever he looked.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gubbish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA