gubbish

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gubbish - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  gubbish
  
     <jargon> /guhb'*sh/ (A portmanteau of "garbage" and "rubbish"
     which may have originated with SF author Philip K. Dick)
     Garbage; crap; nonsense.  "What is all this gubbish?"  The
     opposite portmanteau "rubbage" is also reported.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-05-09)
  

gubbish - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  gubbish
   /guhb'@sh/, n.
  
     [a portmanteau of `garbage' and `rubbish'; may have originated with
  SF
     author Philip K. Dick] Garbage; crap; nonsense. "What is all this
     gubbish?" The opposite portmanteau `rubbage' is also reported; in
     fact, it was British slang during the 19th century and appears in
     Dickens.