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How to pronounce “grub”
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Pronunciation guide for grub
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of grub with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
that her wasp grub is feeding on the still-living cockroach.
- Definition summary
- (countable) An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce grub
Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
that her wasp grub is feeding on the still-living cockroach.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “grub”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
- (uncountable, slang) Food.
- (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
- (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
- (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
- [Verb]
- To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
- (ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
- (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
- (slang, dated) To eat.
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