Grub definition
(slang) Food.
noun
To dig in the earth.
Grub for potatoes.
verb
To dig up by or as if by the roots.
Grubbed carrots with a stick.
verb
To clear of roots and stumps by digging.
Grubbed a small plot.
verb
The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
noun
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The short, fat, wormlike larva of certain insects, esp. of a beetle.
noun
Grub is defined as to dig, search through or work very hard.
An example of grub is digging and pulling weeds out of a garden bed.
verb
(slang) To obtain by importunity.
Grub a cigarette.
verb
To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.
verb
To toil arduously; drudge.
Grub for a living.
verb
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A drudge.
noun
To dig in the ground.
verb
To work hard, esp. at something menial or tedious; drudge.
verb
To search about; rummage.
verb
(slang, former) To eat.
verb
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To clear (ground) of roots and stumps by digging them up.
verb
To dig up by or as by the roots; root out; uproot.
verb
(old, informal) A person who does menial or tedious work; drudge.
noun
(slang) Food.
noun
The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
noun
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To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
To grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
verb
(slang) To supply with food.
verb
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The definition of grub is a stubby worm-shaped larva of some insects, or a slang term for food.
An example of grub is the stage of a beetle before it cocoons and turns into its beetle form.
noun
Origin of grub
- Middle English grubben from Old English grybban ghrebh-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From hypothetical Old English root *grubbian, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”). The noun sense of "larva" (c.1400) may derive from the notion of "digging insect" or from the possibly unrelated Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”)."
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