Gubbish
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Anything worthless or incomprehensible; junk. uncountable
"But by the time the novel is over we are left with the perception that the autistic boy is living in a kind of precog vision of a future decaying into “gubbish,” into a dead simulacrum from which all animating spirit has been leached ( a key Dickian concept ), as real or more so in some sense than the consensus reality of the other characters."
Example
More examples"But by the time the novel is over we are left with the perception that the autistic boy is living in a kind of precog vision of a future decaying into “gubbish,” into a dead simulacrum from which all animating spirit has been leached ( a key Dickian concept ), as real or more so in some sense than the consensus reality of the other characters."
Etymology
Blend of garbage + rubbish, coined by Philip K. Dick in his 1964 novel Martian Time-Slip.
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