grubby

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: grub=by

CIDE DICTIONARY

grubby, a. [From Grub.].

 Dirty; unclean.  [1913 Webster]
"The grubby game of marbles."  [1913 Webster]

grubby, n. 

 Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

grubby, adj. (grubbier, grubbiest)
1 dirty, grimy, slovenly.
2 of or infested with grubs.

Derivative

grubbily adv. grubbiness n.

THESAURUS

grubby

beat-up, bedraggled, beset, black, blowzy, careless, chintzy, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, filthy, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grimy, grungy, impure, in rags, infested, informal, loose, lousy, lumpen, messy, miry, muddy, mussy, nasty, negligent, pedicular, pediculous, plagued, poky, ragged, raggedy, ratty, ravaged, ruinous, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soily, sooty, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, teeming, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, wormy