Grubby

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  • adjective. Dirty; grimy: synonym: dirty.
  • adjective. Infested with grubs.
  • adjective. Contemptible; despicable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Dirty; unclean, as if from grubbing.
  • Stunted; poor; peevish.
  • Infected with grubs.
  • noun. The common sculpin, a cottoid fish, Acanthocottus æneus, of New England.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Dirty; unclean.
  • noun. Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
  • adjective. Having grubs in it.
  • noun. Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
  • adjective. infested with grubs
  • noun. small sculpin of the coast of New England
    • Word Usage
    "The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage."
    Equivalent
    dirty  soiled  unclean  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sculpin  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    chubby  clubby  hubby  scrubby  shrubby  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bedraggled  beige  bloodstained  filthy  grimy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beat-up  bedraggled  beset  black  blowzy  
    variant
    grubbier  grubbiest  
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