Hypertext Webster Gateway: "grubby"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Grubby \Grub"by\, a. [From {Grub}.]
Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.]

The grubby game of marbles. --Lond. Sat.
Rev.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Grubby \Grub"by\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any species of {Cottus}; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

grubby
adj : thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's
begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby
little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: {begrimed}, {dingy},
{grimy}, {grungy}, {raunchy}]
n : small sculpin of the coast of New England [syn: {Myxocephalus
aenaeus}]


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