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Is grub a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word grub is a Scrabble US word. The word grub is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is grub a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word grub is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

G2R1U1B3

Is grub a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word grub is a Words With Friends word. The word grub is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3R1U2B4

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4-letter words (2 found)

BURG,GRUB,

3-letter words (8 found)

BRU,BUG,BUR,GUB,GUR,RUB,RUG,URB,

2-letter words (3 found)

GU,UG,UR,

You can make 13 words from grub according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of grub

grub rgub gurb ugrb rugb urgb grbu rgbu gbru bgru rbgu brgu gubr ugbr gbur bgur ubgr bugr rubg urbg rbug brug ubrg burg

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word grub. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in grub.

Definitions and meaning of grub

grub

Alternative forms

  • grob (UK dialectal)

Etymology

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).

The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹʌb/
  • Rhymes: -ʌb

Noun

grub (countable and uncountable, plural grubs)

  1. (countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.
    Synonym: larva
  2. (uncountable, slang) Food.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
  3. (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
  4. (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
  5. (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.

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Translations

See also

  • caterpillar
  • maggot
  • worm

Verb

grub (third-person singular simple present grubs, present participle grubbing, simple past and past participle grubbed)

  1. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
  3. (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
  4. (slang, dated) To eat.

Related terms

  • grave
  • groove

Translations

Anagrams

  • -burg, Burg, burg

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁuːp/
  • Rhymes: -uːp

Verb

grub

  1. singular preterite of graben

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grǫbъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrûːb/

Adjective

grȗb (definite grȗbī, comparative grȕbljī, Cyrillic spelling гру̑б)

  1. rough, coarse
  2. rude

Declension


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