Synonyms of the word grub


GRUBBUM - CADGE - CHOW - CHUCK - EATS - FARE - LARVA - MOOCH - OBTAIN - SEARCH - SEEK - SPONGE

grub

  • n. (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Food.
  • n. (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
  • v. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
  • v. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
  • v. (slang) To supply with food.

bum

  • n. The buttocks.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
  • n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
  • interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
  • n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
  • n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
  • n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
  • n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
  • n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
  • v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
  • adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
  • adj. Unfair.
  • adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
  • adj. Unpleasant.
  • v. To depress; to make unhappy.
  • n. (dated) A humming noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
  • n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

cadge

  • n. (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
  • v. (Geordie) To beg.
  • v. (US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might…
  • v. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
  • v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
  • v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
  • v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

chow

  • n. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
  • n. a Chow Chow.
  • n. (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
  • v. (slang, South Africa) To eat.
  • n. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
  • v. (mahjong) To (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.

chuck

  • n. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
  • n. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding…
  • n. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
  • n. A clucking sound.
  • n. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
  • n. A gentle touch or tap.
  • n. (informal) A casual throw.
  • n. (slang) An act of vomiting.
  • n. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
  • v. To make a clucking sound.
  • v. To call, as a hen her chickens.
  • v. To touch or tap gently.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  • v. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
  • v. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
  • v. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving…
  • n. Abbreviation of woodchuck.
  • n. (Scotland) A small pebble.

eats

  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eat.
  • n. (slang) Food.

fare

  • n. (obsolete) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
  • n. Money paid for a transport ticket.
  • n. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
  • n. Food and drink.
  • n. Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
  • n. (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.
  • v. (intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience,…
  • v. (intransitive) To eat, dine.
  • v. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.

larva

  • n. An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects…
  • n. An animal in the aforementioned stage.
  • n. A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.

mooch

  • v. (Britain) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
  • v. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
  • v. (Britain) To steal or filch.
  • n. One who mooches; a moocher.

obtain

  • v. (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
  • v. (intransitive) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

search

  • n. An attempt to find something.
  • n. The act of searching in general.
  • v. (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.
  • v. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
  • v. (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.

seek

  • v. (transitive) To try to find, to look for, to search.
  • v. (transitive) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
  • v. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
  • v. (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

sponge

  • n. (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton…
  • n. (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often…
  • n. (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
  • n. (informal) A heavy drinker.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake; sponge cake.
  • n. (countable, uncountable, Britain) A type of steamed pudding.
  • n. (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak…
  • n. (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
  • n. Any spongelike substance.
  • n. A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered…
  • n. The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
  • v. (transitive) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
  • v. (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
  • v. To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
  • v. To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
  • v. To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
  • v. (intransitive) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.

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