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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English grubben , grobben , from Old English *grubbian , from Proto-West Germanic *grubb- , from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben ( “ to scrape, scramble, grab ” ) , Old High German grubilōn ( “ to dig, search ” ) , German grübeln ( “ to meditate, ponder ” ) ), from Proto-Germanic *grub- ( “ to dig ” ) (see *grabaną ).
The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub , grubbe , grobbe , crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub ( “ dwarfish fellow ” ) . Compare West Frisian krobbe ( “ beetle ” ) . The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub ( “ drink ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
grub (countable and uncountable , plural grubs )
An immature beetle
( countable ) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle .
Synonym: larva
( uncountable , slang ) Food .
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
pub grub
1958 , Anthony Burgess , The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972 , page 298 :"The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs , but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."
( Australia , slang ) A dirty person.
( Australia , slang ) A despicable person; a lowlife .
( obsolete ) A short, thick man; a dwarf .
1609 , Richard Carew , The Survey of Cornwall. , new edition, London: B. Law, ; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769 , →OCLC :John Romane, a short clownish grub , would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
Derived terms
Translations
immature insect
Arabic: يَرَقَة f ( yaraqa )
Armenian: թրթուր (hy) ( tʻrtʻur )
Belarusian: лічы́нка f ( ličýnka )
Bulgarian: ла́рва f ( lárva ) , личи́нка f ( ličínka )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 幼蟲 / 幼虫 (zh) ( yòuchóng )
Czech: ponrava (cs) f
Dutch: larve (nl) f , larf (nl) f
Esperanto: insektido
Finnish: toukka (fi)
French: larve (fr) f
German: Larve (de) f , Wurm (de) m
Greek: κάμπια (el) f ( kámpia )
Hebrew: דֶּרֶן (he) m ( déren )
Hungarian: lárva (hu)
Icelandic: maðkur (is) m , lirfa (is) f
Italian: larva (it) f , bruco (it) m
Japanese: 幼虫 (ja) ( ようちゅう, yōchū )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 유충 (ko) ( yuchung )
Latin: terēdō f
Malay: lundi ( of beetles ) , tempayak ( of ants, bees and wasps )
Maori: tuiau , torongū
Ottoman Turkish: قورت ( kurt )
Polish: robak (pl) m
Portuguese: larva (pt) f
Romanian: larvă (ro) f
Russian: личи́нка (ru) f ( ličínka )
Spanish: larva (es) f , verme (es) m
Swedish: larv (sv) c
Thai: ตัวอ่อน (th) ( dtuua-ɔ̀ɔn )
Turkish: larva (tr) , kurtçuk (tr)
Ukrainian: личи́нка f ( lyčýnka )
Vietnamese: ấu trùng (vi)
slang: food
Belarusian: харч m ( xarč ) , харчы́ m pl ( xarčý )
Bulgarian: храна (bg) f ( hrana )
Catalan: manduca (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 吃食 (zh) ( chīshi ) , 吃喝 (zh) ( chīhē )
Dutch: vreten (nl) n ( Netherlands ) , voer (nl) n
Finnish: sapuska (fi) , safka (fi) , sörsseli (fi)
French: bouffe (fr) f
German: Fressalien (de) , Futter (de) n
Greek: μάσα (el) f ( mása )
Hungarian: kaja (hu)
Icelandic: matur (is) m , æti n
Italian: sbobba (it) f
Japanese: 食べ物 (ja) ( たべもの, tabemono ) , ( informal ) 食い物 (ja) ( くいもの, kuimono ) , めし (ja) ( meshi )
Macedonian: хра́на f ( hrána )
Polish: żarcie (pl) n
Portuguese: gororoba (pt) f
Russian: харчи́ (ru) m pl ( xarčí ) ( colloquial ) , жратва́ (ru) f ( žratvá ) ( slang, impolite ) , ха́вчик (ru) m ( xávčik ) ( slang, impolite ) , харч (ru) m ( xarč )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: клопа f
Roman: klopa (sh) f
Spanish: manduca (es) f , manducatoria (es) f , condumio (es) m , papeo (es) m , morfi (es) m
Swedish: käk (sv) n
Turkish: yemek (tr)
Ukrainian: харч m ( xarč )
Welsh: sgram m or f
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Verb
grub (third-person singular simple present grubs , present participle grubbing , simple past and past participle grubbed )
To scavenge or in some way scrounge , typically for food.
( transitive , intransitive ) To dig ; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up .
to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
1846 , Julius Hare , The Mission of the Comforter :They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
1898 , J. Meade Falkner , chapter 4, in Moonfleet , London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape , published 1934 :Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers.
( slang , dated , transitive ) To supply with food.
( slang , dated ) To eat .
1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens , Our Mutual Friend. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II) , London: Chapman and Hall , , published 1865 , →OCLC :"John dear , we must give this little fellow his supper , you know ." “ Of course we must , my darling . " “ He has been grubbing and grubbing at school, ” said Bella
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Translations
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German
Pronunciation
Verb
grub
singular preterite of graben
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grǫbъ .
Pronunciation
Adjective
grȗb (definite grȗbī , comparative grȕbljī , Cyrillic spelling гру̑б )
rough , coarse
rude
Declension
positive indefinite forms
singular
masculine
feminine
neuter
nominative
grub
gruba
grubo
genitive
gruba
grube
gruba
dative
grubu
gruboj
grubu
accusative
inanimate animate
grub gruba
grubu
grubo
vocative
grub
gruba
grubo
locative
grubu
gruboj
grubu
instrumental
grubim
grubom
grubim
plural
masculine
feminine
neuter
nominative
grubi
grube
gruba
genitive
grubih
grubih
grubih
dative
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
accusative
grube
grube
gruba
vocative
grubi
grube
gruba
locative
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
instrumental
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
positive definite forms
singular
masculine
feminine
neuter
nominative
grubi
gruba
grubo
genitive
grubog(a)
grube
grubog(a)
dative
grubom(u/e)
gruboj
grubom(u/e)
accusative
inanimate animate
grubi grubog(a)
grubu
grubo
vocative
grubi
gruba
grubo
locative
grubom(e/u)
gruboj
grubom(e/u)
instrumental
grubim
grubom
grubim
plural
masculine
feminine
neuter
nominative
grubi
grube
gruba
genitive
grubih
grubih
grubih
dative
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
accusative
grube
grube
gruba
vocative
grubi
grube
gruba
locative
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
instrumental
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
grubim(a)
comparative forms
singular
masculine
feminine
neuter
nominative
grublji
grublja
grublje
genitive
grubljeg(a)
grublje
grubljeg(a)
dative
grubljem(u)
grubljoj
grubljem(u)
accusative
inanimate animate
grublji grubljeg(a)
grublju
grublje
vocative
grublji
grublja
grublje
locative
grubljem(u)
grubljoj
grubljem(u)
instrumental
grubljim
grubljom
grubljim
plural
masculine
feminine
neuter
nominative
grublji
grublje
grublja
genitive
grubljih
grubljih
grubljih
dative
grubljim(a)
grubljim(a)
grubljim(a)
accusative
grublje
grublje
grublja
vocative
grublji
grublje
grublja
locative
grubljim(a)
grubljim(a)
grubljim(a)
instrumental
grubljim(a)
grubljim(a)
grubljim(a)
superlative forms
singular
masculine
feminine
neuter
nominative
najgrublji
najgrublja
najgrublje
genitive
najgrubljeg(a)
najgrublje
najgrubljeg(a)
dative
najgrubljem(u)
najgrubljoj
najgrubljem(u)
accusative
inanimate animate
najgrublji najgrubljeg(a)
najgrublju
najgrublje
vocative
najgrublji
najgrublja
najgrublje
locative
najgrubljem(u)
najgrubljoj
najgrubljem(u)
instrumental
najgrubljim
najgrubljom
najgrubljim
plural
masculine
feminine
neuter
nominative
najgrublji
najgrublje
najgrublja
genitive
najgrubljih
najgrubljih
najgrubljih
dative
najgrubljim(a)
najgrubljim(a)
najgrubljim(a)
accusative
najgrublje
najgrublje
najgrublja
vocative
najgrublji
najgrublje
najgrublja
locative
najgrubljim(a)
najgrubljim(a)
najgrubljim(a)
instrumental
najgrubljim(a)
najgrubljim(a)
najgrubljim(a)