Green’s Dictionary of Slang
grub, n.1 1. ‘a person of slovenly attire and unpleasant manners’ (OED). 2. a dirty, unkempt person, esp. a child, also attrib. 3. tuberculosis. 4. one who fails to achieve the popular social norms. 5. a student kitchen worker.
grub, n.2 1. food . 2. fig. use of sense 1, a punishment. 3. a hard worker, one who works to the exclusion of other interests . 4. a meal; thus grub palace, a restaurant . 5. drugs .
21 sub-entries
grub, adj. of food, tasty.
grub, v.1 1. to eat; thus grub and bub, to eat and drink. 2. to provide with food. 3. to beg, to scrounge; thus on the grub. 4. to scavenge.
grub, v.2 to walk (unsteadily).
2 sub-entries
grub, v.3 1. to study hard. 2. to kiss passionately. 3. to have sexual intercourse.
grub, v.4 to execute by decapitation.
grub!, excl. a mild excl.
grub and bub
(n.)
food and drink, thus grub and bub shop, a restaurant. under grub, n.2
grub and snooze
(n.)
bed and board. under grub, n.2
grub-crib
(n.)
an eating house. under grub, n.2
grub-hole
(n.)
an eating house. under grub, n.2
grub hooks
(n.)
fingers or hands. under grub, n.2
grub-joint
(n.)
a boarding-house. under grub, n.2
grub-liner
(n.)
an itinerant, out-of-work cowboy who subsists on hand-outs; thus on the grub line . under grub, n.2
grub-mill
(n.)
the mouth. under grub, n.2
grub-pile
(n.)
a meal. under grub, n.2
grub-shop
(n.)
1. an eating house; in UK public schools, a ‘tuck-shop’. 2. the mouth. under grub, n.2
grub-slinger
(n.)
1. a cook. 2. a waiter or waitress. under grub, n.2
grub-spoiler
(n.)
a cook. under grub, n.2
grubstake see separate entries. under grub, n.2
grub station
(n.)
a restaurant. under grub, n.2
grub-street
(n.)
the mouth. under grub, n.2
grub thirst
(n.)
hunger; appetite. under grub, n.2
grub-trap
(n.)
the mouth. under grub, n.2
grub warehouse
(n.)
the stomach. under grub, n.2
grubbed
(adj.)
exhausted, unsteady. under grub, v.2
grub along
(v.)
to subsist, to struggle along. under grub, v.2
grubber, n.1 1. a beggar . 2. an itinerant mender of old hats. 3. work, presumably legitimate. 4. a vagrants’ casual night shelter or workhouse. 5. a disgusting person. 6. a working man . 7. see nail groper under nail n.1
grubber, n.2 1. an eater; thus heavy grubber, an enthusiastic, if unmannered, eater. 2. the mouth.
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