refuse vs rubbish

refuse

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

verb
  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

rubbish

noun
  • Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • An item, or items, of low quality. 

intj
  • Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense! 

  • Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible. 

adj
  • Exceedingly bad; awful. 

verb
  • To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage. 

  • To litter. 

How often have the words refuse and rubbish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )