[
UK
/ɡɹˈʌbi/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹəbi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹəbi/ ]
NOUN
- small sculpin of the coast of New England
ADJECTIVE
- infested with grubs
-
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
dingy linen
grubby little fingers
a grungy kitchen
a miner's begrimed face
grimy hands
How To Use grubby In A Sentence
- Use them to help scrub down grubby bathroom tiles and really get to the gritty bits. The Sun
- Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
- Harriet slouched until she was almost hunchbacked, wearing boy's clothes, unironed and grubby.
- He walked to the chair and looked through the grubby net curtain.
- We left the meeting exhausted, exhilarated, and dreaming of when we'd get our grubby, grabby mitts on some final code.
- The first is grubby old politics. Times, Sunday Times
- Think what ranting about a grubby bathroom could get you. Times, Sunday Times
- We transport them from their grubby little lives to Elysian fields. PAINT THE WIND
- The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
- Once they get grubby or ratty on the bottom, turn the hem under and rehem. Berks county news