grub

grub  (grb)

v. grubbed, grub·bing, grubs

v.tr.

1. To dig up by or as if by the roots: grubbed carrots with a stick.

2. To clear of roots and stumps by digging: grubbed a small plot.

3. Slang To obtain by importunity: grub a cigarette.

v.intr.

1. To dig in the earth: grub for potatoes.

2.

a. To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.

b. To toil arduously; drudge: grub for a living.

n.

1. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.

2. A drudge.

3. Slang Food.

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[Middle English grubben, from Old English *grybban; see ghrebh-² in Indo-European roots.]

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grubber n.

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grub

Noun

1. Slang food

2. the short legless larva of certain insects, such as beetles

Verb

[grubbing, grubbed]

1. to search carefully for something by digging or by moving things about

2. grub up to dig (roots or plants) out of the ground [Germanic]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	grub - informal terms for a meal chuck, eats, chow fare - the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
	2.	grub - a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects larva - the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose maggot - the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter leatherjacket - tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies
Verb	1.	grub - ask for and get free; be a parasite bum, cadge, mooch, sponge obtain - come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" freeload - live off somebody's generosity; "This young man refuses to work and is freeloading"
	2.	grub - search about busily look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"

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grub

noun 1. larva, maggot, caterpillar

noun 2. (Slang) food, feed, rations, tack (informal) eats (slang) kai N.Z. (informal) sustenance, nosh (slang) victuals, nosebag (slang) vittles (obsolete), (dialect)

verb 3. search, hunt, scour, ferret, rummage, forage, fossick Austral., N.Z.

verb 4. dig, search, root (informal) probe, burrow, rootle Brit.

Translations

grub [grʌb] n → gusano;

(col) (= food); comida

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grub [grʌb] n → larve f;

(inf) (= food); bouffe f

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grub [grʌb] n (larva) → Larve f;

(inf) (food) → Fressalien pl, Futter nt

vi to grub about or around (for) → (herum)wühlen (nach)

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grub [grʌb] n → larva;

(col) (= food); roba (da mangiare)