Grubbery
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A basic restaurant or cookshop. countable, slang
"His strength and stamina were doubted; he was a youth of not more than 19 years of age, nearly six feet high, 12 stone in weight, but thought to have more gristle than bone: his victualling office had also been some time out of commission; however, the keen air of Hampstead, added to a good grubbery, had not only produced an improvement of his frame, but had reduced the odds against him, […]"
- 2 The quality of being grasping; a tendency to grub. uncountable
""From thieving Arabs to Jewish grubbery, it had to be the daughter of a wheel merchant.""
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More examples"His strength and stamina were doubted; he was a youth of not more than 19 years of age, nearly six feet high, 12 stone in weight, but thought to have more gristle than bone: his victualling office had also been some time out of commission; however, the keen air of Hampstead, added to a good grubbery, had not only produced an improvement of his frame, but had reduced the odds against him, […]"
Etymology
From grub + -ery.
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