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gubbish
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/guhb'@sh/ , n. [a portmanteau of garbage and rubbish ; may have originated
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with SF author Philip K. Dick] Garbage; crap; nonsense. What is all this
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gubbish? The opposite portmanteau rubbage is also reported; in fact, it was
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British slang during the 19th century and appears in Dickens.
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