grub
Speech parts
1. grub - Noun
2. grub - Verb
Meaning
To supply with food.
To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
To drudge; to do menial work.
To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
A short, thick man; a dwarf.
Victuals; food.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Show all synonymsAntonyms
Show all antonymsHypernyms
Hyponyms
Related terms
Phrases with the word
Derivatives
Anagrams
Examples
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
Grub first, then ethics.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
Everything that Mr Smallweeds grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.
O Grub Street how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.