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grubling

noun

Etymology

From grub + -ling.

  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. suffixed as grubling — “grub + ling”

Definitions

  1. A small, young, or miniature grub.

    • When Grubs, and Grublings, censure Fielding's Scenes, He cannot answer that which Nothing means: Scorn'd by the wise, and in their Filth secure, How should he damn the damn'd, or soil th' impure?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grubling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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