grubbed

Verb

grub (third-person singular simple present grubs, present participle grubbing, simple past and past participle grubbed)

1. (transitive) To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
2. (ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
   • to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
3. (dated, slang, transitive) To supply with food.
4. (dated, slang) To eat.
   • “[…] 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!”1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Concerning the Mendicant’s Bride”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, 4th book (A Turning), page...

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