grub

ɡɹʌb

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#1·6h ago

(Australia, slang) A dirty person.

{{RQ:Carew Survey of Cornwall

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#2·6h ago

(countable) An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.

Origin: From , grobben, from , from , from (compare , , ), from (see *grabaną). The noun sense of "larva" is from , grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related . Compare . The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#3·6h ago

(uncountable, slang) Food.

"The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."

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