| 释义 |
† Grubean, a. jocular. Obs.
Also Grubæan, Grubbean.
[f. Grub-street) + -ean, after Sabean, etc.]
Of or belonging to Grub-street.
1704Swift T. Tub i. (1709) 30 The Grubaean sages have always chosen to convey their precepts..shut up within the Vehicles of types and fables. 1759Dilworth Pope 39 The overt acts of the Grubean sowers of poetic sedition. 1795Chron. in Ann. Reg. 6 A Grubean elegy. 1803Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1804) VII. 33 The Grubean sages have exalted their society, in point of fame, above all societies. |