grub
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Is grub a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.Synonyms: larvacountable
2. (uncountable, slang) Food.Examples: "pub grub"; ""The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest.""Synonyms: aliment, bait, belly-timber, chow, comestibles, cuisine, eatables, eatsslanguncountable
3. (Australia, slang) A dirty person.Australiacountableslanguncountable
4. (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.Australiacountableslanguncountable
5. (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.Examples: "John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him."countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.Examples: "to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge"; "They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin."; "Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers."ambitransitive
2. (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.datedslangtransitive
3. (slang, dated) To eat.Examples: "“[…] John dear, we must give this little fellow his supper, you know.” “Of course we must, my darling.” “He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,” said Bella, looking at her father’s hand and lightly slapping it, “till he’s not fit to be seen. O what a grubby child!”"datedslang
Definition source: Wiktionary