Grubby (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
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Meaning 2
Infested with grubs.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The gardener suspected that the tree's branches were grubby, so she decided to spray insecticide.
- The apples on the ground looked ripe, but upon closer inspection, they were grubby and not worth eating.
- The forester reported that many of the forest's oak trees were grubby with infestations of white grubs.
- The lawn care expert explained that grubby turf can be difficult to repair and often requires multiple treatments.
- After cutting into the firewood, the logger was disappointed to find that the core was grubby and had to be discarded.