"rubish" meaning in English

See rubish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more rubish [comparative], most rubish [superlative]
Etymology: rube + -ish Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|rube|ish}} rube + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} rubish (comparative more rubish, superlative most rubish)
  1. Like a rube.

Download JSON data for rubish meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rube",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "rube + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "rube + -ish",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more rubish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most rubish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rubish (comparative more rubish, superlative most rubish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Donald Barthelme, Kim A. Herzinger, The teachings of Don B.",
          "text": "I suppose I am a rubish hayseed in some sense, full of down-home notions that contradict the more sophisticated notions of my colleagues.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Like a rube."
      ],
      "id": "en-rubish-en-adj-6ORYHKsT",
      "links": [
        [
          "rube",
          "rube"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rubish"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rube",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "rube + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "rube + -ish",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more rubish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most rubish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rubish (comparative more rubish, superlative most rubish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ish",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Donald Barthelme, Kim A. Herzinger, The teachings of Don B.",
          "text": "I suppose I am a rubish hayseed in some sense, full of down-home notions that contradict the more sophisticated notions of my colleagues.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Like a rube."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rube",
          "rube"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rubish"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.