grubby 
So dark, so dingy, like a yrubby lot 
Of sooty swei-ps, or colliers. 
Hood, A Black Job. 
The houses, the shops, and the people all appeared more 
or less arubbii. and as if a little clean water would do them 
good. N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 536. 
2. Stunted; poor; peevish. [Prov. Eng.] 3. 
[< grub, ., + -y 1 .] Infected with grubs. 
All stag, tainted, and badly scored, grubby, or murrain 
hides are called damaged, and must go at two-thirds price. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 55. 
grubby 2 (grub'i), w.; pi. f/rubbies (-iz). [Cf. 
(jrubby^."] The common sculpin, a cottoid fish, 
Acanthocottits teneus, of New England. 
grub-hook (grub'huk), re. An agricultural im- 
plement, consisting of a large hook drawn by 
horses and guided by means of handles, used 
in grubbing up stones, roots, etc. 
grub-plank (grub'plangk), . Refuse plank 
used in fastening together the parts of a lum- 
ber-raft. [U. S.] 
grub-saw (grub's^), n. [< grub, v., 1, + saw 1 .] 
A hand-saw, consisting of a notched iron blade 
with a stiff back of wood, used to cut marble 
slabs into strips for shelves, mantelpieces, etc. 
The cutting is effected with smaller blades, called grub- 
saws. O. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 86. 
grub-Stake (grub'stak), n. [< grub, n., 3, + 
stake.] The outfit, provisions, etc., furnished 
to a prospector on condition of participating 
in the profits of any find he may make ; a lay- 
out. [Mining slang, western U. S.] 
Grub-street (grub'stret), n. and a. [The name 
of a street near Moorfields in London, former- 
ly much resorted to for residence by needy 
writers. It is now called Milton street.] I. 
n. The tribe of needy or sordid authors collec- 
tively. 
Long, long beneath that hospitable roof 
Shall Grub-street dine, while duns are kept aloof. 
Byron, Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 
II. a. Shabby; paltry; mean: said of a kind 
of writing and writers. 
I'd sooner ballads write, and Grub-street lays. Gay. 
Sepulchral lies, our holy walls to grace, 
And New-Year odes, and all the Grub-street race. 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 44. 
grub-time (grub'tim), n. Time to eat ; meal- 
time. [Slang.] 
grubworm (grub'werm), re. Same as grub, 1. 
And gnats and grub-worms crowded on his view. 
Smart, The Hilliad. 
gruchet-, gmcchet, < Middle English forms of 
grutch, grudge 1 . 
grudge 1 (gruj), v. ; pret. and pp. grudged, p_pr. 
grudging. [A var. of the earlier and dial. 
grutch, early mod. E. also groudge, < ME. grug- 
gen, a var. of grwtchen, grucchen, gruchen, grouch- 
en, grochen, murmur, complain, feel envy, < OF. 
groueier, grouchier, groucher, gruchier, grocher, 
gruger, croucier (> ML. groussare), murmur, 
grudge, repine. Origin uncertain; perhaps 
Scand., cf. Icel. krytja (pret. krutti), murmur, 
krutr, a murmur, Sw. dial, kruttla, murmur; or 
else of G. origin, cf. MHG. G. grunzen = E. 
grunt.] I. intrans. 1. To be unwilling or re- 
luctant. 
I sail noght grouche ther agayne, 
To wirke his wille I am wele payed. 
York Plays, p. 62. 
And we should serve him as a grudging master. 
As a penurious niggard of his wealth. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 725. 
2f. To cherish ill-will; bear a grudge. 
"I grouche not," quod Gawayne, "the gree es thaire 
awene I 
They mone hafe gwerddouns fulle grett graunt of my 
lorde ! " Morte Arthurs (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2820. 
They knew the force of that dreadful curse, whereunto 
idolatry maketh subject; nor is there cause why the guilty 
sustaining the same should grudge or complain of injus- 
tice. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
3f. To be sorry ; grieve. 
But other while I grutche sore 
Of some thinges that she dooth. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., i. 
You love him, I know it ; 
I grudg'd not at it, but am pleas'd it is so. 
Fletcher (and Massingerl), Lovers' Progress, Hi. 6. 
We . . . grudge in our concyence when we remember 
our synnes. Bp. Fisher, On the Psalms, p. 32. 
4. To murmur; grumble. 
For this oynement myght have be soeld more than for 
thre hundrid pens and be goven to pore men, andthei gruc- 
chiden agens hir. Wyd(f, Mark xiv. 5. 
He gan to grucche and blamed it a lite. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Reeve's Tale, 1. 9. 
When he [William II.] built Westminster-Hall, he made 
that an Occasion to lay a heavy Tax upon the People, who 
grudged at it as done on purpose. Baker, Chronicles, p. 34. 
2641 
II. trans. 1. To envy; wish to deprive of 
something. 
Grutching the English such a vessel, they all joined to- 
gether, plundered the English of their ship, goods, and 
arms, and turned them ashore. 
Dampier, Voyages, an. 1683. 
Mankind are the wolves that I fear, 
They grudge me my natural right to be free. 
Camper, Scenes Favorable to Meditation (trans.). 
O who shall grudge him Albuera's bays, 
Who brought a race regenerate to the Held? 
Scott, Don Roderick, Conclusion, st. 14. 
2. To give or permit with reluctance ; grant or 
submit to unwillingly; begrudge. 
A trew [truce] to be takon of a tyme short, 
Sex moneth & no more, his men for to rest : 
That the Grekes hym grauntid, grucchet thai noght. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 8374. 
The stable and raercifull earth, which before had opened 
her mouth to receiue his brothers blood, thinking, and (as 
it were) grudging to support such wicked feet. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 33. 
For which cause presbyters must not grudge to continue 
subject unto their bishops. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity (ed. Keble), III. 165. 
The price I think ye need not grudge. 
Northern Lord and Cruel Jew (Child's Ballads, VIII. 278). 
They sponge upon the blessings of a warm sun and a 
fruitful soil, and almost grutch the pains of gathering in 
the bounties of the earth. 
R. Beverley, quoted in Tyler's Amer. Lit., I. 87. 
For not so gladsome is that life . . . 
That one should grudge its loss for Balder's sake. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
3f. To entertain by way of grudge. 
Perish they 
That grudge one thought against your majesty ! 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ill. 1. 
grudge 1 (gruj), re. [< grudge 1 , v.] 1. Ill-will 
excited by some special cause, as a personal 
injury or insult, successful rivalry, etc.; secret 
enmity; spite. 
Among fooles there is much stryfe, disdayne, grudge, 
and debate. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 92. 
He ne'er bore grudge for stalwart blow, 
Ta'en in fair fight from gallant foe. 
Scott, L. of L. M., v. 28. 
Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to 
wreak a grudge of seventeen years. 
Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 
2. Unwillingness; reluctance. 
Those to whom you have 
With grudge preferr'd me. 
B. Jonson, Catiline, iii. 1. 
= Syn. 1. Animosity, Ill-will, Enmity, etc. See animosity. 
grudge 2 (gruj), v. t. ; pret. and pp. grudged, ppr. 
grudging. [Sc., also grus)i ; < OF. gruger, F. 
gruger, crumble, crunch, grind. Cf. grudgings.] 
1. To crumble ; crunch. 2. To squeeze; press 
down. 
gmdgefult (gruj'ful), a. [< grudge 1 + -fill'] 
Grudging. 
And rayle at them with grudgefull discontent. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. viii. 28. 
grudgeonst (gruj'onz), n.pl. See grudgings. 
grudger (gruj 'er), re. [< ME. grucchere ; < grudge 
+ -er 1 .] One who grudges; a discontented 
person. 
These ben gruccheris, ful of playntes, wandringe after 
desires. Wyclif, Jude 16. 
grudgery (gruj'er-i), re. [< grudge 1 + -ery.] 
Grudging; disaffection; reluctance. [Bare.] 
I am convinced that no reluctant tie can be a strong one, 
and that a cheerful alliance will be a far securer form of 
connection than any principle of subordination borne with 
grudgery and discontent. Burke. 
grudging (gruj'ing), n. [A var. of earlier and 
dial, grutching, < ME. grutching, grucching, 
gruching, groching, -ynge, murmuring, com- 
plaining, verbal n. of gruggen, grucchen, etc., 
grudge: see grudge 1 , v."] If. Murmuring; re- 
pining; complaining. 
And sufflre mekely for his lufe with-owttene gruchynge 
if thou may. Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 30. 
Sir, blessed be God, with all our evil reports, grudgings, 
and restraints, we are merry in God. 
Bp. Ridley, in Bradford's Letters (Parker Soc. , 1853), II. 84. 
Great grudging and manic a bitter cursse followed about 
the leuieng of this monle, and much mischeefe rose there- 
of, as after it appeared. Holinshed, Rich. II., an. 1381. 
2. Unwillingness; reluctance. 
Graunte me boute grucching to haue that gaie maide. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4748. 
3. Envy; begrudging. 4f. An access or par- 
oxysm of a disease, as the chill before a fever. 
From any gout's least grutching 
Bless the Sovereign and his touching. 
B. Jonson-, Gipsies Metamorphosed. 
So clerely was she deliuered from all grudgeynq of the 
ague. J. Udall, On Mat. viii. 
The strongest man 
May have the grudging of an ague on him. 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, iii. 1. 
gruesome 
5f. Hence, figuratively, prophetic intimation ; 
presentiment. 
Now have I 
A kind of grudging of a beating on me. 
Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune. 
grudgingly (gruj'ing-li), adv. In a grudging 
manner; unwillingly; with reluctance or dis- 
content. 
Every man, according as he purposeth in his heart, so 
let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God 
loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Cor. U. 7. 
grudgingness (gruj'ing-nes), re. The state or 
quality of grudging; begrudging disposition. 
Nothing grates on me more than that post h umous grudg- 
ingness toward a wife. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Ixiv. 
grudgingst (gruj'ingz), n. pi. [Earlier grudge- 
ons, also gurgeons, gurgions; cf. OF. grugcons, 
the smallest or most imperfect fruit on a tree, < 
OF. gruger. F. gruger, crumble, crunch, grind : 
see grudge?.] Coarse meal; grouts; the part 
of the corn which remains after the fine meal 
has passed through the sieve. 
You that can deal with grudgings and coarse flour. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill. 
grudgment (gruj'ment), n. [< grudge 1 + -ment.] 
The act of grudging; discontent. Browning. 
[Bare.] 
grue, grew 2 (gro), v. ; pret. and pp. grued, 
grewed, ppr. gruing, grewing. [Also dial, grow ; 
< ME. gruen, growen, grouen, also gryen (> E. 
dial, gry 1 , shiver), shudder, refl. be in pain; cf. 
Sw. grufva, shudder, refl. be in pain or con- 
cern, = Norw. gruva, grua, dread, shudder, = 
Dan. grue, intr., dread, tremble, shudder, = D. 
gruwen, tr., abhor, execrate, = LG. grouwen = 
OHG. in-gruen, shudder, MHG. gruen, gruwen, 
G. graven, impers., dread, fear: see further un- 
der grise 1 and growse 1 , and cf . gruesome.] I. in- 
trans. To shiver; shudder; feel horror. [North. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
I would have done Mr. Mordaunt's bidding, ... if he 
hadna made use of profane oaths, which made my very 
flesh grue. Scott, Pirate, vii. 
That cretur's vice [voice] gars me a' grue. 
Noctes Ambrosiance. 
II. trans, (impers.) To pain; grieve. [North. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
gruel (gro'el), n. [< ME. gruel, gruwel, grewel, 
growel, < OF. gruel, later gruau, coarse meal, F. 
gruau, meal, oatmeal, grits, groats, gruel, < ML. 
grutellum (later, after OF., gruellum), dim. of 
grutum (> OF. gru, Pr. gru), meal, < AS. grut, 
meal, grout: see grout 1 .] 1. A fluid or semi- 
liquid food, usually for infants or invalids, made 
by boiling meal or any farinaceous substance 
in water. 
His perseuerance aperethe in that Daniel saith, Prove 
vs thy seruants these 10 dayes withe greuell & a little wa- 
ter. Joye, Exposition of Daniel, i. 
Hence 2. Any pasty mess. 
Make the gruel thick and slab. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 
To get or have one's gruel, to be severely punished, 
disabled, or killed. [Slang.] 
He gathered in general that they expressed great in- 
dignation against some individual. "He shall hare his 
gruel," said one. Scott, Guy Mannering, xxviii. 
gruel (gro'el), v. t. ; pret. and pp. grueled or 
grnelled, ppr. grueling or gruelling. [< gruel, 
re.] To exhaust; use up; disable. [Slang, 
Eng.] 
Wadham ran up by the side of that first Trinity yester- 
day, and he said that they were as well grnelled as so 
many posters before they got to the stile. 
Kingsley, Alton Locke, xii. 
grueler, grueller (gro'el-er), . An overmas- 
tering difficulty; a finisher; a floorer. [Slang, 
Eng.] 
This 25 of his is a grueller, and I learnt with interest 
that you are inclined to get the flsh's nose out of the 
weed. Kingsley, Letter, May, 1856. 
gruell (gro'el), n. In coal-mining, coal. Gres- 
Icy. [Ireland.] 
grueller, . See grueler. 
Grues (grii'ez), n. pi. [L., pi. ofgrus, a crane.] 
Cranes and other gruiform birds regarded as 
a family or group. 
grueso (grij-a'so), re. [Sp., bulky, large, coarse, 
gross, grueso, n., bulk, thickness, gross; = E. 
gross: see gross.] In the quicksilver-mines of 
California, the best or first-class ore in large 
lumps, generally several inches in diameter. 
gruesome, grewsome (gro'sum), a. [Also writ- 
ten grusonie, growsome, Sc. grousom, groosum 
(cf. Dan. grusom, cruel, = OD. grouwsaeni, D. 
gruwzaam MHG. gruu-esam, G. grausam, horri- 
ble, terrible, fierce, cruel) ; < grue (= D. gruicen 
= Dan. grue, etc.), shudder (the noun, OD. 
