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