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Adjective: grubby (grubbier,grubbiest)  grú-bee
  1. Infested with grubs
     
  2. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
    "grubby little fingers";
    - begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy [US]
Noun: grubby  grú-bee
  1. Small sculpin of the coast of New England
    - Myxocephalus aenaeus

Derived forms: grubbies, grubbiest, grubbier

See also: dirty, soiled, unclean

Type of: sculpin

Part of: genus Myxocephalus, Myxocephalus

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