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bone-grubbers

bone-grubbers is the plural of bone-grubber.

Meaning of bone-grubber

Noun

bone-grubber (plural bone-grubbers)

  1. (obsolete) A person who scavenges for waste materials such as bones and rags to sell.
    • More than half of our modern scribes, and particularly the dramatic portion of them, are little better than literary bone-grubbers, pickers and stealers of unconsidered trifles,—men who, having no brains, live by spinning the brains of others, and give themselves credt for originality.1842, William Collier, “A Chapter on Beards”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, Volume 11, January-June 1842, p. 575

Questions about bone-grubbers

What is bone-grubbers the plural of?
Bone-grubbers is the plural of bone-grubber.

Words near bone-grubbers in the dictionary

  1. bone-eating snot flower worms
  2. bone-eating snot flowers
  3. bone-fire
  4. bone-fires
  5. bone-grubber
  6. bone-grubbers
  7. bone-hard
  8. bone-house wasp
  9. bone-house wasps
  10. bone-idle
  11. bone-in

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