grub

Significat (English)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

maggot

larva

caterpillar

🐛

dig

drudge

worm

🪱

eats

excavate

chuck

feed

spade

sponge

🧽

rummage

chow

bum

weevil

fare

larvae

dirty creature

food

🍽️

cadge

dig up

poke

toil

eradicate

mooch

root

drop

earthworm

eat

🍽️

embryo

enervate

enfeeble

exhaust

extirpate

general term

go through

hack

humiliate

kill

🔪🩸👤

labor

liquidate

moil

mortify

moth

nosh

nourishment

nutriment

nuzzle

overcome

overthrow

pabulum

pass through

pull down

quarry

quiet

quiten

rake

rake up

ransack

rifle

rout

scoop out

shoot

shoot dead

slaughter

slay

slut

soothe

still

stub

subsist

surmount

sustenance

tackle

take down

taro

tranquilize

unroot

uproot

use up

vanquish

viand

wallow

weaken

win over

caterpillar track

delve into

sprog

plain food

entozoon

nutrition

white grub

abase

wire worm

aliment

appease

assuage

beat

beetle

🪲

breakdown

butcher

calm

carve

chase

chop

chrysalis

comestibles

cover

creepy-crawly

cut off

cutworm

defeat

delve

demolish

depress

diet

dig out

discourage

dishearten

down

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡɹʌb/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: grubben

Inherited from anglès antic: *grubbian

Cognate with neerlandès mitjà: grobben

Cognate with alt alemany antic: grubilōn

Cognate with alemany: grübeln

Inherited from anglès mitjà: grub

Cognate with anglès mitjà: grub

Cognate with frisó occidental: 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”).