Definitions for grub
grʌbgrub

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chow, chuck, eats, grubnoun

   informal terms for a meal

2. grubverb

   a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

3. mooch, bum, cadge, grub, spongeverb

   ask for and get free; be a parasite

4. grubverb

   search about busily

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. grubnoun

   An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.

2. grubnoun

   Food.

3. grubverb

   To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.

4. Etymology: From hypothetical root grubbian, from (compare Old High German grubilon "to dig, search," German grübeln "to meditate, ponder"), from grub-. The noun sense of "larva" (c.1400) may derive from the notion of "digging insect" or from the possibly unrelated grub "dwarfish fellow." The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub "drink."

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grubnoun

   Etymology: from grubbing, or mining.

   1. A small worm that eats holes in bodies.

   There is a difference between a grub and a butterfly, and yet your butterfly was a grub. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   New creatures rise,
   A moving mass at first, and short of thighs;
   ’Till shooting out with legs, and imp’d with wings,
   The grubs proceed to bees with pointed stings. Dryden.

   Sometimes they are eaten with grubs. John Mortimer, Husband.

   The grub,
   Oft unobserv’d, invades the vital core;
   Pernicious tenant! and her secret cave
   Enlarges hourly, preying on the pulp
   Ceaseless. Phillips.

   2. A short thick man; a dwarf. In contempt.

   John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him. Carew.

2. To GRUBverb

   To dig up; to destroy by digging; to root out of the ground; to eradicate by throwing up out of the soil.

   Etymology: graban, preter. grôb, to dig, Gothick.

   A foolish heir caused all the bushes and hedges about his vineyard to be grubbed up. Roger L'Estrange.

   Forest land,
   From whence the surly ploughman grubs the wood. Dryden.

   The grubbing up of woods and trees may be very needful, upon the account of their unthriftiness. John Mortimer, Husband.

   As for the thick woods, which not only Virgil but mentions, they are most of them grubbed up, since the promontory has been cultivated and inhabited. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grub

   GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader, commonly referred to as GRUB) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference implementation of the Free Software Foundation's Multiboot Specification, which provides a user the choice to boot one of multiple operating systems installed on a computer or select a specific kernel configuration available on a particular operating system's partitions. GNU GRUB was developed from a package called the Grand Unified Bootloader (a play on Grand Unified Theory). It is predominantly used for Unix-like systems. The GNU operating system uses GNU GRUB as its boot loader, as do most Linux distributions and the Solaris operating system on x86 systems, starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grub

   Grub is generally referred to as the larva of an insect, especially a beetle, known for its squat, soft body and voracious eating habits. Alternatively, it is often used in informal English as a slang term for food.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grubverb

   to dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging

2. Grubverb

   to drudge; to do menial work

3. Grubverb

   to dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge

4. Grubverb

   to supply with food

5. Grubnoun

   the larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith

6. Grubnoun

   a short, thick man; a dwarf

7. Grubnoun

   victuals; food

8. Etymology: [OE. grubbin., cf. E. grab, grope.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grub

   Grub is an open source distributed search crawler platform. Users of Grub can download the peer-to-peer grubclient software and let it run during computer idle time. The client indexes the URLs and send them back to the main grub server in a highly compressed form. The collective crawl could then, in theory, be utilized by an indexing system, such as the one being proposed at Wikia Search. Grub is able to quickly build a large snapshot by asking thousands of clients to crawl and analyze a small portion of the web each. Wikia has now released the entire Grub package under an open source software license. However, the old Grub clients are not functional anymore. New clients can be found on the Wikia wiki.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grub

   grub, v.i. to dig in the dirt: to be occupied meanly: (slang) to eat.—v.t. to dig or root out of the ground (generally followed by up): (slang) to supply with victuals:—pr.p. grub′bing; pa.p. grubbed.—n. the larva of the beetle, moth, &c.: (slang) something to eat.—n. Grub′ber, he who, or that which, grubs: an agricultural implement for grubbing out weeds, &c., or for clearing and stirring up the soil, with obliquely placed tines or teeth set in a frame and moved forward on wheels.—v.i. and v.t. Grub′ble, to grope.—n. Grub′-street, a street in London inhabited by booksellers' hacks and shabby writers generally.—adj. applied to any mean literary production. [Prob. A.S. grápian, to grope.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grub

   A coarse but common term for provisions in general-- "In other words they toss'd the grub Out of their own provision tub."

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1. GRUB

   What does GRUB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GRUB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grub

   an insect larva: a term loosely applied, but more specifically to larvae of Coleopteran and Hymenoptera.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRUB

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Grub is ranked #93921 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Grub surname appeared 195 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Grub.
   
   92.8% or 181 total occurrences were White.
   4.1% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Fare
   • Obtain
   • Search

Anagrams for grub »

1. burg

How to pronounce grub?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say grub in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grub in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grub in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of grub in a Sentence

1. Bertolt Brecht:

   First the grub, then the morals.

2. Anthony Trollope:

   I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

3. Bertolt Brecht:

   Grub first, then ethics.

4. Scott Morrison:

   It's not a joke, it's not funny, you're putting the livelihoods of hard-working Australians at risk and you're scaring children. You're a coward and you're a grub and if you do that sort of thing in this country we will come after you.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=grub
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grub
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=grub
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grub
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=grub
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=grub
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=grub
10. ^ Entomology
    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=grub
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html