rubbishy, a.
(ˈrʌbɪʃɪ)
Also 9 rubbishey.
[f. rubbish n. + -y1.]
1. Abounding in, covered with, rubbish or litter.
| 1795 A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 143 The fruit-trees, to whose luxuriance the rocky, and..rubbishy soil, below the surface, has proved very inauspicious. 1842 Sir H. Taylor Edwin the Fair iv. i, To be reviled By shallow coxcombs whom I daily..snatch from a rubbishy tomb Amongst the ruins of their wits. 1853 G. Johnston Nat. Hist. Eastern Borders I. 87 The true plant is common in hedges and rubbishy places. 1860 Sir H. Acland in J. B. Atlay Mem. (1903) x. 290 Washington..has a few palaces shied down upon a rubbishy heath. |
2. a. Of the nature of rubbish; paltry, contemptible, worthless.
| 1824 Scott St. Ronan's xii, Like your rubbishy Birmingham pieces, that will..go off at half-cock. 1841 Marryat Poacher xxiii, Only look what a rubbishy affair this is. 1862 ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton) Nugæ Crit. xi. 487 A rubbishy conceit is more invaluable to them than a finished design. 1893 Leland Mem. I. 27 She spoke of the building as a rubbishy piece of architecture. 1946 [see leavable a.]. |
b. Comb., as rubbishy-looking adj.
| 1874 ‘Mark Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 81 You notice that the Gilded Age is a rather rubbishy looking book. |