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grubbery

noun

Etymology

From grub + -ery.

  1. inherited from grub
  2. derived from *grub-✻ — “to dig”
  3. derived from *grubb-✻
  4. derived from *grubb-✻
  5. inherited from *grubbian✻
  6. inherited from grubben
  7. formed as grubbery — “grub + -ery”

Definitions

  1. A basic restaurant or cookshop.

    • Patterned after the grubberies and saloons frequented by hungry prospectors, the restaurant satisfies hearty appetites with savory appetizers […]

  2. The quality of being grasping

    The quality of being grasping; a tendency to grub.

    • "From thieving Arabs to Jewish grubbery, it had to be the daughter of a wheel merchant."
    • As another comes with blue-eyed guilt, bed / dressed in morning grubbery in your mind, […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA