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单词 grubbery
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grubberyn.

/ˈɡrʌbəri/
Etymology: < grub n. or grub v. + -ery suffix.
1. A room for hard work or study. ? Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > others
speech-housec1050
watching-chamber1533
music room1608
service room1669
amphitheatre1694
lararium1706
well-room1731
lumber room1740
water room1774
bird room1776
grubbery1791
bookery1798
study1808
service room1833
selamlik1838
serving room1838
social space1851
mail room1856
rumpus room1930
birthing room1936
home office1960
romper room1961
dungeon1969
1791 Dr. Burney Let. 8 Oct. in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) 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.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]
meateOE
eatOE
foodOE
fodderOE
dietc1230
gista1290
victual1303
victualsa1375
preya1382
feedinga1398
pasturea1398
viancea1400
viandsc1400
livingc1405
meatingc1425
vitalyc1440
vianda1450
cates1461
vivers1536
viandry1542
viander1543
gut-matter1549
peck1567
belly-cheer1579
appast1580
manchet1583
chat1584
belly-metal1590
repasture1598
cibaries1599
belly-timber1607
belly-cheat1608
peckage1610
victuallage1622
keeping1644
vivresa1650
crib1652
prog1655
grub1659
beef1661
fooding1663
teething1673
eatablea1687
sunket1686
yam1788
chow-chow1795
keep1801
feed1818
grubbing1819
patter1824
ninyam1826
nyam1828
grubbery1831
tack1834
kai1845
mungaree1846
scoff1846
foodstuff1847
chuck1850
muckamuck1852
tuck1857
tucker1858
hash1865
nosh1873
jock1879
cake flour1881
chow1886
nosebag1888
stodge1890
food aid1900
tackle1900
munga1907
scarf1932
grubber1959
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > communal or public meal
ordinar1553
public table1561
ordinary1589
penny-commons1615
fellowshipa1650
ordinary suppera1661
house dinner1818
table d'hôte1821
grubbery1831
syssitia1835
mess1840
hall1861
potluck1867
syssition1874
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. xxii. 178 A nice little cabin there..with grubbery, free of rent and taxes.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. xxxiii. 265 You seem not very well found in the grubbery line.
1837 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 31 Jan. 4/2 The out-and-out speech of Lord Spencer at the late grubbery.
b. A place where one ‘grubs’ or takes food.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant
eating-housec1440
feast house?c1475
victualling-house1541
cookshop1542
cookhouse1548
feasting house1563
treating-house1680
suttling-house1691
shop1695
chop shop1733
restaurateur1782
slap-bang shop1785
restorator1797
dinner house1803
restaurant1806
snack-house1820
grubbery1823
refreshment house1825
restauration1832
trattoria1832
slap-bang1836
ristorante1874
tavern-restaurant1880
foodery1892
eatery1901
taverna1914
chop-house1915
nosh1917
diner1924
noshery1952
ryotei1953
lokanta1954
Chinesery1956
relais routier1960
hotel1968
tratt1969
robata1975
fast foodery1979
Chinky1981
rodizio1981
taqueria1982
resto1988
paladar1994
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 91 A grubbery, a cook's-shop.
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Grubbery (popular), an eating-house.
3. Something grubbed or dug out; an excavation.
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society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > digging or excavating > an excavation
fossure1727
excavation1781
grubbery1887
1887 A. W. Tuer & C. E. Fagan First Year Silken Reign viii. 164 Brunel's Thames Tunnel..this damp and sombre grubbery.
4. Grovelling or sordid way of life. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and meanness > way of life
grubbery1891
1891 Symonds 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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