grubbery n.
1. the stomach.
Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 17: The rag being in queer street, he is taking a few whiffs just to prevent his grubbery from being troublesome. | ||
Annals of Sporting 1 Mar. 199: A little, round, fat, oily man [...] with a grubbery like an alderman’s. | ||
Bk of Sports 25: The grubbbery was again knocked about by the Pet. | ||
Bell’s Life in Sydney 23 May 2/6: Tom popped a left-hander on the ‘grubbery’. | ||
(ref. to 1810s–50s) Bulletin (Sydney) 23 July 21/4: The following sentence leaves no room whatever for doubt – ‘Tom then napped a left-hander on the grubbery.’. |
2. food.
Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 376: After finishing our snack of grubbery, we told the landlord who we were. | ||
Memoirs (trans. W. McGinn) III 95: I shall not cut my stick until I have had some grubbery. | ||
Sixteen String Jack II iii: Wery capital things them boarding-schools, ’specially if the grubbery’s good. | ||
Sixteen-String Jack 324: Is there anything in the grubbery line to be had? | ||
‘Epistle from Joe Muggins’s Dog’ in Era (London) 22 Feb. 3/4: Loads uv grubbery for ther upper sort. |
3. a cookshop; an eating house.
Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. | ||
Bell’s Life in London 10 Apr. 2/3: I vas so peckish, that I proposed going to the grubbery. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
4. a public meal.
Boston Herald 31 Jan. 4/2: The out-and-out speech of Lord Spencer at the late grubbery. |
5. (UK Und.) a workhouse.
Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant. |
6. a dining room.
Sl. and Its Analogues. |