rubbish vs trash

rubbish

noun
  • An item, or items, of low quality. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash. 

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. 

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

  • To litter. 

adj
  • Exceedingly bad; awful. 

trash

noun
  • Something worthless or of poor quality. 

  • A container into which things are discarded. 

  • (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks. 

  • The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning. 

  • A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful. 

  • Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse. 

  • (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.) 

  • Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary. 

  • Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades. 

verb
  • To disrespect someone or something 

  • To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop. 

  • To make into a mess. 

  • To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. 

  • To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. 

  • To discard. 

  • To beat soundly in a game. 

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