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grubby, a.|ˈgrʌbɪ|
[f. grub n. + -y.]
1. a. Infested with grubs. b. Of the nature of a grub or larva.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Tree, Reject those trees..that are knotty and appear to be grubby. 1852Househ. Words 23 Oct. 138 Divesting themselves of the grubby or chrysalis-like covering of great-coats and wrap-rascals.
2. Stunted, dwarfish. (Cf. grub n. 2 a.) Now dial.
1611Cotgr., Rabougri, growne crooked, and low;..mis⁓growne, grubbie, dried up. Ibid., Ratatiné, grubbie, shrunke in, thick and short. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 11 Observe, if there are great Trees near, whether they grow crooked, ill-shap'd, and grubby. 1886Chesh. Gloss., Grubby, small, poor, stunted.
3. Dirty, grimy; also slovenly and underbred.
a1845Hood Black Job vi, They look'd so ugly in their sable hides: So dark, so dingy, like a grubby lot Of sooty sweeps. 1855Chamb. Jrnl. III. 105 The lint..is sure to suffer;..it is sure to become foul, and, as it is technically termed, ‘grubby’. 1859F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth, etc. 227 A pack of grubby children in a frowzy school. 1861Sala Dutch Pict. xxi. 330 That shabby, grubby, ill-smelling old street. 1893G. Allen Scallywag I. 153, I like Mr. Thistleton..he's quite nice, of course, and there's nothing grubby about him.
4. dial. (See quot. and cf. grub n. 3.)
1841Hartshorne Salop. Antiq. 450 Grubby, testy, ill⁓tempered, peevish.
Hence ˈgrubbiness, grubby or grimy condition.
1866Morn. Star 20 Aug. 4/6 Their face in a condition of grubbiness.
Add: ˈgrubbily adv.
1934in Webster. 1987I. McEwan Child in Time iv. 85 Squat, grubbily rendered houses dreaming under their hot roofs. |
