d. 1842. Maginn, Vidocq’s Song. I pattered in flash like a covey
knowing, Tol lol, etc. Ay, bub or grubby, I say.
Adj. (colloquial).—Dirty; slovenly.
d. 1845. Hood, A Black Job. Like a grubby lot of sooty sweeps or
colliers.
Grub-hunting, subs. (tramps’).—Begging for food.
Grub-shite, verb. (old).—To make foul or dirty; to bewray.—Grose.
Grub-shop, (or -crib, -trap, etc.), subs. (common).—1. The mouth; and
(2) a grubbery (q.v.). For synonyms, see Potato-trap.
1840. Thackeray, Comic Almanack, p. 229. ‘That’s the grub shop,’
said my lord, ‘where we young gentlemen wot has money buys our
wittles.’