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unrubbish

adj

Etymology

un- + rubbish

  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. prefixed as unrubbish — “un + rubbish”

Definitions

  1. Not rubbish

    Not rubbish; good or acceptable.

    • […] they manage to land someone decidedly unrubbish to spend their lives with.
    • So that's why I just sent a rubbish little nothing-note (not to be confused with the very unrubbish Notes with a big N).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unrubbish. 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