Grubby

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grubby \Grub"by\, a. [From {Grub}.]
     Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.]
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           The grubby game of marbles.              --Lond. Sat.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grubby \Grub"by\, n. (Zool.)
     Any species of {Cottus}; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grubby
       adj : thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's
             begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby
             little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: {begrimed}, {dingy},
              {grimy}, {grungy}, {raunchy}]
       n : small sculpin of the coast of New England [syn: {Myxocephalus
           aenaeus}]
       [also: {grubbiest}, {grubbier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "grubby":
     beat-up, bedraggled, beset, black, blowzy, careless, chintzy,
     dilapidated, dingy, dirty, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed,
     dusty, filthy, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grimy, grungy,
     impure, in rags, infested, informal, loose, lousy, lumpen, messy,
     miry, muddy, mussy, nasty, negligent, pedicular, pediculous,
     plagued, poky, ragged, raggedy, ratty, ravaged, ruinous, scraggly,
     scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod,
     sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy,
     smutty, snuffy, soily, sooty, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered,
     teeming, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy,
     wormy