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1. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
   "grubby little fingers";
   - begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy [US, informal], manky [Brit, informal], scungy [Austral, NZ, informal]
    
2. Infested with grubs

1. Small sculpin of the coast of New England
   - Myxocephalus aenaeus

Derived forms: grubbier, grubbies, grubbiest

See also: dirty, soiled, unclean

Type of: sculpin

Part of: genus Myxocephalus, Myxocephalus

Encyclopedia: Grubby