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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)

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grub

n grub [grab]

1 the form of an insect after it hatches from its egg A caterpillar is a grub. wurm, ruspe دودَة بَيضاء ларва larva larve; orm die Larve προνύμφη larva, gusano tõuk لیسه حشرات toukka larve זחל सूंड़ी ličinka hernyó ulat lirfa, maðkur larva 幼虫 유충 lerva kūniņa lundi; ulat larve, made larve, orm, mark larwa larva larvă личинка larva ličinka larva larv ตัวอ่อนของแมลง tırtıl, sürfe, larva, kurt 幼蟲 личинка; гусінь کسی حشرے کا لاروا con giòi 蛴螬,幼虫

2 a slang term for food Is there any grub in the house? eetgoed, kos أكْل، طَعام клъопачка jídlo, bašta ædelse das Futter μάσα (λαϊκ.) papeo, manduca lobi, söögipoolis غذا murkina bouffe אוכל भोजन klopa, jelo kaja makanan matur, æti cibo 食物 음식물 ėdalas rijamais makanan voedsel mat, noe å ha i skrotten żarcie bóia haleală жратва žrádlo hrana klopa käk อาหาร yiyecek 食物 їжа غذا thức ăn 食物

v – past tense, past participle grubbed –

to search by digging The pigs were grubbing around for roots. opgrawe, snuffel, graaf يَبحَث عَن الطعام изравям rýt rode wühlen ψάχνω σκαλίζοντας escarbar, hurgar sonkima دنبال چیزی گشتن از طریق کندن tonkia fouiller להפוך אדמה खोदना rovati (fel)ás, (fel)túr menggali-gali, mengais-ngais grafa, róta scavare 掘り返す 파내다 knisti, rausti rakņāties menyelongkar (om)wroeten grave, rote ryć fuçar a scormoni рыться ryť, hrabať riti iskopati gräva, rota, böka ขุดรู eşip çıkarmak 挖找 викопувати, викорчовувати کھدائی کر کے ڈھونڈنا đào xới 挖找