[syn: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grubby \Grub"by\, a. [From Grub.]
Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.]
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The grubby game of marbles. --Lond. Sat.
Rev.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grubby \Grub"by\, n. (Zool.)
Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grubby
adj 1: infested with grubs
2: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's
begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little
fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed, dingy,
grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
n 1: small sculpin of the coast of New England [syn: grubby,
Myxocephalus aenaeus]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "grubby":
beat-up, bedraggled, beset, black, blowzy, careless, chintzy,
dilapidated, dingy, dirty, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed,
dusty, filthy, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grimy, grungy,
impure, in rags, infested, informal, loose, lousy, lumpen, messy,
miry, muddy, mussy, nasty, negligent, pedicular, pediculous,
plagued, poky, ragged, raggedy, ratty, ravaged, ruinous, scraggly,
scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod,
sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy,
smutty, snuffy, soily, sooty, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered,
teeming, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy,
wormy