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Word origin
From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną).
Used in a sentence
“pub grub”
“"The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."”
“John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Casual food”4 letters
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