Word Meanings - GRUB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging. 2. To drudge; to do menial work. Richardson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRUB)

• Cringe
• Crouch
• bend
• bow
• fawn
• grabble
• grub
• Grovel
• Crawl
• cringe
• wallow
• creep

Related words: (words related to GRUB)

• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• CROUCHED
  Marked with the sign of the cross. Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.
• WALLOW
  1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self
• GRABBLE
  Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
• CREEPY
  Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
• CREEPLE
  1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple
• CRAWLY
  Creepy.
• CREEPINESS
  An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.
• GROVEL
  adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate
• CREEPIE
  A low stool.
• CROUCH
  creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to 1. To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl. 2. To bend servilely;
• CRAWL
  the hands; akin to Sw. kr to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to 1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls
• CREEPING CHARLIE
  The stonecrop .
• CRINGER
  One who cringes.
• GROVELER
  One who grovels; an abject wretch.
• CREEPINGLY
  by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South.
• CRAWLER
  One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
• CREEPER
  A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia). (more info) 1. One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . .
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SCRAWLER
  One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• ENWALLOW
  To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.
• BESCRAWL
  To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.
• UNDERCREEP
  To creep secretly or privily. Wyclif.