Grubby
[gruhb-ee] /ˈgrʌb i/
adjective, grubbier, grubbiest.
1.
dirty; slovenly:
children with grubby faces and sad eyes.
2.
infested with or affected by or larvae.
3.
contemptible:
grubby political tricks.
[gruhb-ee] /ˈgrʌb i/
noun, plural grubbies.
1.
a small sculpin, Myxocephalus aenaeus, inhabiting waters off the coast of New England.
/ˈɡrʌbɪ/
adjective -bier, -biest
1.
dirty; slovenly
2.
mean; beggarly
3.
infested with grubs
adj.
“dirty,” by 1845, from grub (n.) in a sense of “dirty child” (who presumably got that way from digging in earth) + -y (2). Earlier it was used in a sense of “stunted, dwarfish” (1610s) and “infested with grubs” (1725). Related: Grubbily; grubbiness.
adjective
Not clean; dirty: grubby kid
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