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    Grubby \Grub"by\, a. [From Grub.]
    Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.]
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    The grubby game of marbles. --Lond. Sat.
    Rev.
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    Grubby \Grub"by\, n. (Zool.)
    Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]
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    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]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    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

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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