Etymology

gubbish

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Today it means: Anything worthless or incomprehensible; junk. Full definition →

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The story

Blend of garbage + rubbish, coined by Philip K. Dick in his 1964 novel Martian Time-Slip.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.