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a word that means both your dinner and the thing eating your lawn.
means Food — informal and hearty — or alternatively the soft, pale larva of a beetle or similar insect, and as a verb, to dig or rummage around in the dirt.
from The verb came first: Middle English 'grubben,' to dig, related to a wider Germanic family of words for digging and scratching (a likely cousin of 'grave' and 'grovel'). From the digging came the digger — the larva that grubs through soil and roots. The 'food' sense is later slang, possibly from the idea of birds grubbing for grubs to eat, or simply from the act of grubbing about for sustenance. The two meanings share one earthy root: getting your hands dirty to find what feeds you.
- larval stage
- Beetle babies that live and feast underground
- slang food
- British and American slang for a meal
- protein source
- Edible for billions, packed with fat and protein
- grub street
- London road that named hack writers forever
- verb life
- To dig or root around for something
grubstake mining agreement — 19th century practice where investors funded prospectors in exchange for a percentage of discovered gold or minerals
grub street london — 17th-18th century street in london where impoverished writers and publishers worked on hack literary projects
grub in your hair — fly larvae that burrow under skin or infest hair, common parasitic infestation in tropical regions