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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
grubby
    adj 1: infested with grubs
    2: 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, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
    n 1: small sculpin of the coast of New England [syn: grubby,
         Myxocephalus aenaeus]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Grubby \Grub"by\, n. (Zool.)
   Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]
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Thesaurus Results for Grubby:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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