ˈrubbishing, a.
[f. rubbish n. + -ing2.]
Paltry, worthless, rubbishy.
| 1808 E. Sleath Bristol Heiress I. 157 Young ladies of fortune used to keep themselves to themselves..and not flaunt about with such rubbishing sort of gentry as those. 1849 Alb. Smith Pottleton Legacy (1854) 174 He..had some rubbishing woods, where people went to make a noise with guns. 1863 Thackeray Round. Papers, Strange to Say (1899) 437 I've seen literary fellows at Clubs writing their rubbishing articles. 1884 M. E. Braddon Ishmael xxix, What rubbishing music it is! |
Hence ˈrubbishingly adv.
| 1837 Athenæum 236 They are childishly, rubbishingly, ridiculously otherwise. |