GRUBBY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'grubee
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| Matching Terms: | | Grubber, grubbily, grubbiness, Grubbla
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- [n] small sculpin of the coast of New England
- [adj] thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
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| | Synonyms: | | begrimed, dingy, dirty, grimy, grungy, Myxocephalus aenaeus, raunchy, soiled, unclean |
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| | See Also: | | genus Myxocephalus, Myxocephalus, sculpin | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Grub"by\, a. [From {Grub}.]
Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.]
The grubby game of marbles. --Lond. Sat.
Rev.
\Grub"by\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any species of {Cottus}; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]
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| | Related Terms: | | beat-up, bedraggled, beset, black, blowzy, careless, chintzy, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, filthy, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grimy, grungy, impure, in rags, infested, informal, loose, lousy, lumpen, messy, miry, muddy, mussy, nasty, negligent, pedicular, pediculous, plagued, poky, ragged, raggedy, ratty, ravaged, ruinous, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soily, sooty, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, teeming, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, wormy |
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