Grub

Definitions

1. An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
   countable
2. Food.
   slang, uncountable
3. A dirty person.
   Australia, countable, slang, uncountable
4. A despicable person; a lowlife.
   Australia, countable, slang, uncountable
5. A short, thick man; a dwarf.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“pub grub”

“"The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep⟳ finding dumps of grub in the forest."”

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

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