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rubbishness

noun

Etymology

From rubbish + -ness.

  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. suffixed as rubbishness — “rubbish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being rubbish or worthless.

    • A Texan study earlier this year linked phone use and emotional instability, claiming that “incessant” checking acts as a pacifier, a distraction from the rubbishness of modern life.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rubbishness. 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