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rubbisher, n.2 colloq. (orig. Austral.).
Brit. |ˈrʌbɪʃə|, U.S. |ˈrəbɪʃər|
[‹ rubbish v. + -er suffix1.]
A person who criticizes, disparages, or ridicules.
1969D. S. Wilkins Diary 1 June 44 The entertainers exposed themselves to the roughest audience of rubbishers in existence. 1984Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 11/1 The opinion of television rubbisher Milton Shulman that BBC-2 is ‘the least worst channel we've got’,..sounded dated. 1989Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 17 Nov. 60/5 (heading) Maggert has last laugh on rubbisher. 2004Spectator (Nexis) 24 Feb. 40 Achebe, it seems to me, is wrong to classify Joyce Carey alongside V. S. Naipaul and others as a belittler and rubbisher of Africa and the African. |