grubby
Plural: grubbies
Noun
- small sculpin of the coast of New England
- Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
Adjective
- Dirty or soiled; untidy or disreputable.
- infested with grubs
Adjective Satellite
- thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
- "grubby little fingers"
Adj
- Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
- Disreputable, sordid.
- Having grubs in it.
Examples
- He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
- His GRUBBY tile rack needed some serious cleaning with a good word.
Origin / Etymology
From grub + -y.
Synonyms
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, Myxocephalus aenaeus, raunchy, befouled, besmirched, clarty, cruddy, dirtsome, dirty, foul, grotty, grubby, horry, icky, manky, nasty, seamy, soiled, sordid, squalid, sullied, unclean, unwashed, yucky
Scrabble Score: 14
grubby: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgrubby: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grubby: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary