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grubby

Having grubs in it.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

Having grubs in it.

The United States Department of Agriculture states that grubs cost the livestock industry from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 each year. The average devaluation on grubby cattle is from 25 cents to one dollar per cwt.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

Dirty, unwashed, unclean.

He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

(figurative) Disreputable, sordid.

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  • “This is my brush: Ethernet port This is my paint: ipxe.lkrn This is my canvas: the first PC my grubby hands found in the dumpster”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I wonder if this will be a narrow action targeting the (somewhat nonsensical) licensure claims coming out of whatever grubby CharacterAI bot they chase down, or something much broader (and to your point, destructive).”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I hate it when a queerphobic person is a fan of shadow the hedgehog like get your grubby mitts off my goat”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Has anyone compared how much time Will Stancil has spent being a transphobic misogynist on bluesky to how much time he was opposing ICE? Trans people still have no social or political power to speak of outside of telling him to shut his grubby little mouth.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “!!! I've checked Youtube regularly, but it's been awhile, so this one snuck by me. Very pleased. (I'm still old school enough though to wish for a legit DVD release to have in my grubby little hands...)”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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