rubbage
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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; republished London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816, →OCLC, 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, page 65:
- "And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?" / "No, sah—nuffn' else."
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 B 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: Oxford University Press, March 2011.
