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Thread #106863   Message #2211409
Posted By: SINSULL
08-Dec-07 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Trolls Only Thread
Subject: RE: BS: Trolls Only Thread
rubbish
c.1400, from Anglo-Fr. rubouses (1392), of unknown origin. Apparently somehow related to rubble. The verb sense of "disparage, criticize harshly" is first attested 1953 in Australian and New Zealand slang.

Never thought of Oscar the Grouch as French.