grub

Etymology
From, , from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (see ).

The noun sense of "larva" is from, , , and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬. The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with.

Noun



 * 1)  An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.
 * 2)  Food.
 * 3)  A dirty person.
 * 4)  A despicable person; a lowlife.
 * 5)  A short, thick man; a dwarf.
 * 1)  A dirty person.
 * 2)  A despicable person; a lowlife.
 * 3)  A short, thick man; a dwarf.
 * 1)  A short, thick man; a dwarf.

Translations

 * Arabic: يَرَقَة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: лічы́нка
 * Bulgarian: ла́рва, личи́нка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: insektido
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: terēdō
 * Malay: lundi, tempayak
 * Maori: tuiau, torongū
 * Ottoman Turkish: قورت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: личи́нка
 * Vietnamese:


 * Belarusian: харч, харчы́
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, æti
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Macedonian: хра́на
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  ,  ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: клопа
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: харч
 * Welsh: sgram


 * Dutch:
 * French:

Verb

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

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: róta, róta í
 * Japanese:
 * Romanian: a cauta prin gunoaie, a curata (solul de radacini)

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) rough, coarse
 * 2) rude