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grubberies

grubberies is the plural of grubbery.

Meaning of grubbery

Noun

grubbery (countable and uncountable, plural grubberies)

  1. (countable, slang) A basic restaurant or cookshop.
    • His strength and stamina were doubted; he was a youth of not more than 19 years of age, nearly six feet high, 12 stone in weight, but thought to have more gristle than bone: his victualling office had also been some time out of commission; however, the keen air of Hampstead, added to a good...1818, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; or, Sketches of Antient and Modern Pugilism, page 292
  2. (uncountable) The quality of being grasping; a tendency to grub.
    • "From thieving Arabs to Jewish grubbery, it had to be the daughter of a wheel merchant."1994, André Aciman, Out of Egypt: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, pages 75–76

Questions about grubberies

What is grubberies the plural of?
Grubberies is the plural of grubbery.

Words near grubberies in the dictionary

  1. grubbed out
  2. grubbed up
  3. grubber
  4. grubber kick
  5. grubber kicks
  6. grubberies
  7. grubbers
  8. grubbery
  9. grubbiaceous
  10. grubbier
  11. grubbies

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