If you want to exclude items that have a certain keyword, put a minus sign in front of that keyword when searching.
Note that using an exclusion term has side effects. Normally a search will also match other keywords that are considered synonyms of your keywords; when using an exclusion term, only literal matches of your keywords will be returned.
Some other details of how searching works can be found in this old page on eBay Ireland:
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