grubby
About 0.31 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
- adjective Disreputable, sordid.
- adjective Having grubs in it.
- noun Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
Similar words
begrimed grimy grungy dingy unclean soiled dirty myxocephalus aenaeus tacky unscrupulous
Often followed by
little and hands hand white fingers old clothes as
Word family
grubbier grubbiest grubbily grubbiness grubbinesses
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