Crossword clues for grubby
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grubby \Grub"by\, a. [From Grub.] Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.]
The grubby game of marbles.
--Lond. Sat.
Rev.
Grubby \Grub"by\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dirty," by 1845, from grub (n.) in a sense of "dirty child" (who presumably got that way from digging in earth) + -y (2). Earlier it was used in a sense of "stunted, dwarfish" (1610s) and "infested with grubs" (1725). Related: Grubbily; grubbiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 dirty, unwashed, unclean. 2 Having grubs in it. n. (context US dialect English) Any species of ''Cottus''; a sculpin.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen (; born 11 May 1986) is a Dutch professional gamer. He competes in the real-time strategy games Warcraft III (WC3), Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne and Starcraft 2. As an Orc player, Schenkhuizen has won more than 38 LAN tournaments, of which six are World Championships. His command over the Horde placed him early enough among the elite of the WC3 players, while his clash with Jang "Spirit Moon" Jae-ho rewarded him with a legendary status among the fans of the game. Grubby has been known for being part of one of the most successful WC3 teams in history, namely the British 4Kings. Later teams include the Danish MeetYourMakers and the North American Evil Geniuses.
Usage examples of "grubby".
Soloflex machine, a grubby pink Epilady leg razor, a Bakelite coffee carafe.
Beneath the spaceplane the sea was stained with mud, a grubby brown blemish extending for seventy to eighty kilometres out from the boggy shore.
He smiles grimly and turns back to town, already knowing the furtive, grubby little coda of accounting awaiting him there.
New York without losing its original quality, the dynamism and grubby edges that made it an exciting vibrant place to live.
A short grubby HUMAN and an even smaller rodent-like beast join the belli- gerent monstrosity.
Such liberties do nothing but convert the grubby hacksters who produce these tracts into men of influence, so that they strut around as though they were gentlemen of quality.
With an effort of will she got to her feet, hating the fact that he was seeing her barefoot, in a grubby sweat-soaked T-shirt and cut-off jeans.
Old man Lully wore a plain leather tunic and a grubby apron on which to wipe his hands.
It was dominated by twelve narrow wood bunks stacked in tiers of three, each with a thin bare mattress and a grubby bare pillow lumpily filled with shreds of Styrofoam.
Fatter than ever and bulging out of a rather grubby pink tunic, Harry Mudd opened his arms in welcome.
Mr Pegger took up his spade and continued to dig while I tried to wipe the earth from my shoes and noticed with dismay that the hem of my skirt was decidedly grubby.
The man poked me roughly in the shoulder, then turned up a broad, grubby palm for the rings.
I passed a newly erected mosque, its bright red brick and toytown minarets a sharp contrast to the grubby terraces that surrounded it.
Their leader, a mighty orc almost twice as tall as the sort of tusker Alusair was used to slaying in the Stonelands, whose much-battered breastplate was studded with grinning human skulls, was grinning at her as one large, grubby finger rubbed along the glyphs of the largest tainted tree Alusair had yet seen.
Today there is only one other customer leaning against the bara balding man in his forties wearing a crumpled and grubby raincoat over what looks like an equally unkept business suit.