grub

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle. countable
  2. Food. slang,uncountable
    — pub grub
  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
    — John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
动词 v.
  1. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food. transitive
  2. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up. ambitransitive
    — to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
  3. To supply with food. dated,slang,transitive
  4. To eat. dated,slang
    — “[…] John dear, we must give this little fellow his supper, you know.” “Of course we must, my darling.” “He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,” said Bella, looking at her father’s hand and lightly slapping it, “till he’s not fit to be seen. O what a grubby child!”

词形变化

grubs plural grob alternative,UK,dialectal grubs present,singular,third-person grubbing participle,present grubbed participle,past grubbed past grob alternative,UK,dialectal

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną).
The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”).
词源 2
From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną).
The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”).
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