rubbage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from rubb(ish) + -age (suffix forming nouns with the sense of collection or appurtenance).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌbɪd͡ʒ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌbɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɹə-/
- Hyphenation: rub‧bage
Noun
[edit]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."
- [1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, 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[1], 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
[edit]- ^ “rubbish, n., adj., and int.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2011.