grubby

from 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}]
from 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.
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from 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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from 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
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