grub

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.
2. (slang, uncountable) Food.
3. (Australia, countable, slang, uncountable) A dirty person.
4. (Australia, countable, slang, uncountable) A despicable person; a lowlife.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A short, thick man; a dwarf.

Verb

1. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
2. (ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
3. (dated, slang, transitive) To supply with food.
4. (dated, slang) To eat.

Sinonieme

larva

maggot

caterpillar

🐛

dig

worm

🪱

drudge

feed

spade

chuck

excavate

eats

dig up

bum

eradicate

cadge

dirty creature

rummage

root

weevil

food

🍽️

fare

sponge

🧽

mooch

chow

larvae

poke

toil

dig out

chop

diet

chase

breakdown

depress

demolish

delve

defeat

carve

beetle

🪲

appease

cutworm

exhaust

cut off

calm

enfeeble

extirpate

creepy-crawly

enervate

embryo

general term

cover

Vertalings

larve

larva

larve

larva

Larve

larva

bruco

gusano

🪱

opduikelen

rooien

Raupe

🐛

verme

🪱

opgraven

Made

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɡɹʌb/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: grubben

Geërf van Old English: *grubbian

Verwante met Middle Dutch: grobben

Verwante met Old High German: grubilōn

Verwante met Duits: grübeln

Geërf van Middle English: grub

Verwante met Middle English: grub

Verwante met Fries: krobbe

In summary

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”).