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grubbery|ˈgrʌbərɪ|
[f. grub n. or v. + -ery.]
†1. A room for hard work or study. ? Obs. rare—1.
1791F. Burney Let. Dr. Burney 8 Oct. in Diary V. 260 The great grubbery will be in nice order for you, as well as the little; both have..many accessions of new books.
2. slang.
a. Food, ‘grub’; also, a (public) meal.
b. A place where one ‘grubs’ or takes food.
1823‘J. Bee’ Slang 91 A grubbery, a cook's-shop. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son lxiii, A nice little cabin there..with grubbery, free of rent and taxes. Ibid. lxxiii, You seem not very well found in the grubbery line. 1837Boston Herald 31 Jan. 4/2 The out-and-out speech of Lord Spencer at the late grubbery. 1889Barrière & Leland Dict. Slang, Grubbery (popular), an eating-house.
3. Something grubbed or dug out; an excavation.
1887Tuer & Fagan 1st Yr. Silken Reign viii. 164 Brunel's Thames Tunnel..this damp and sombre grubbery.
4. Grovelling or sordid way of life. rare—1.
1891Symonds in H. F. Brown Biog. (1895) II. 336 Let us not allow ourselves to be submerged in passion or our love to lapse in grubbery. |