I can't believe how hard it is to find decent grub around here.
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Grub
//ɡɹʌb//
Synonyms for "grub" (170 found)
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Closest matches (34)
Strong matches (51)
Related words (85)
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6 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
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1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
106 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- يَرَقَة noun (immature insect)
Armenian
1 entries- թրթուր noun (immature insect)
Belarusian
3 entries- лічы́нка noun (immature insect)
- харч noun (slang: food)
- харчы́ noun (slang: food)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ла́рва noun (immature insect)
- личи́нка noun (immature insect)
- храна noun (slang: food)
- ровя verb (scavenge or scrounge)
Catalan
1 entries- manduca noun (slang: food)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 吃喝 noun (slang: food)
- 吃食 noun (slang: food)
- 幼蟲 /幼虫 noun (immature insect)
Czech
4 entries- bašta noun (slang: food)
- dlabanec noun (slang: food)
- ponrava noun (immature insect)
- hrabat se verb (scavenge or scrounge)
Dutch
4 entries- larf noun (immature insect)
- larve noun (immature insect)
- voer noun (slang: food)
- vreten noun (slang: food)
Esperanto
1 entries- insektido noun (immature insect)
Estonian
1 entries- tõuk noun (immature insect)
Finnish
4 entries- safka noun (slang: food)
- sapuska noun (slang: food)
- sörsseli noun (slang: food)
- toukka noun (immature insect)
French
2 entries- bouffe noun (slang: food)
- larve noun (immature insect)
German
4 entries- Fressalien noun (slang: food)
- Futter noun (slang: food)
- Larve noun (immature insect)
- Wurm noun (immature insect)
Greek
3 entries- κάμπια noun (immature insect)
- μάσα noun (slang: food)
- τρώω verb (scavenge or scrounge)
Hebrew
2 entries- דֶּרֶן noun (immature insect)
- מזון noun (slang: food)
Hungarian
4 entries- kaja noun (slang: food)
- lárva noun (immature insect)
- pajor noun (immature insect)
- guberál verb (scavenge or scrounge)
Icelandic
4 entries- lirfa noun (immature insect)
- matur noun (slang: food)
- maðkur noun (immature insect)
- æti noun (slang: food)
Italian
3 entries- bruco noun (immature insect)
- larva noun (immature insect)
- sbobba noun (slang: food)
Japanese
4 entries- めし noun (slang: food)
- 幼虫 noun (immature insect)
- 食い物 noun (slang: food)
- 食べ物 noun (slang: food)
Korean
1 entries- 유충 noun (immature insect)
Latin
1 entries- terēdō noun (immature insect)
Macedonian
1 entries- хра́на noun (slang: food)
Malay
2 entries- lundi noun (immature insect)
- tempayak noun (immature insect)
Māori
2 entries- torongū noun (immature insect)
- tuiau noun (immature insect)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- سوس noun (immature insect)
- قورت noun (immature insect)
Polish
2 entries- robak noun (immature insect)
- żarcie noun (slang: food)
Portuguese
2 entries- gororoba noun (slang: food)
- larva noun (immature insect)
Romanian
3 entries- larvă noun (immature insect)
- a cauta prin gunoaie verb (scavenge or scrounge)
- a curata (solul de radacini) verb (scavenge or scrounge)
Russian
4 entries- жратва́ noun (slang: food)
- личи́нка noun (immature insect)
- ха́вчик noun (slang: food)
- харч noun (slang: food)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- klopa noun (slang: food)
- клопа noun (slang: food)
Sicilian
3 entries- cagnolu noun (immature insect)
- càmula noun (immature insect)
- vermu noun (immature insect)
Spanish
4 entries- condumio noun (slang: food)
- larva noun (immature insect)
- manduca noun (slang: food)
- manducatoria noun (slang: food)
Swedish
2 entries- käk noun (slang: food)
- larv noun (immature insect)
Thai
1 entries- ตัวอ่อน noun (immature insect)
Turkish
3 entries- kurtçuk noun (immature insect)
- larva noun (immature insect)
- yemek noun (slang: food)
Ukrainian
2 entries- личи́нка noun (immature insect)
- харч noun (slang: food)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ấu trùng noun (immature insect)
Welsh
1 entries- sgram noun (slang: food)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- milerrk noun (immature insect)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
I'm going to get some grub and I'll be back.
Source: tatoeba (2165542)
What is the most delicious tasting grub?
Source: tatoeba (6596331)
Can you eat a June bug grub?
Source: tatoeba (9995167)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.