rubbage

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative, dialectal, uncountable, usually)Alternative form of rubbish.

   “E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, [...]”

   “"And ain't you had nothing but that kind of rubbage to eat?" / "No, sah—nuffn' else."”

   “Simply because as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstoryshortener, he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubbages on to soil here.”

   “CRUFT: that which magically amounds in the Clubroom just before you walk in to clean up. In other words, rubbage. / [September 2005 commentary]: [...] Rubbage is a rare term for rubbish, but I had heard it used growing up in New England.”

   “I didn't want him to buy any more rubbage.”