The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to GRUB

 

CHAUNTER CULLS		Grub-street writers, who compose songs, carrols, etc. for ballad-singers.
GRUB		Victuals. To grub; to dine.
GRUB STREET		A street near Moorfields, formerly the supposed habitation of many persons who wrote for the booksellers: hence a Grub-street writer means a hackney author, who manufactures booss for the booksellers.
GRUB STREET NEWS		Lying intelligence.
GRUBSHITE		To make foul or dirty.
HOG GRUBBER		A mean stingy fellow.
MULLIGRUBS		Sick of the mulligrubs with eating chopped hay: low-spirited, having an imaginary sickness.
RUSTY		Out of use, To nab the rust; to be refractory; properly applied to a restive horse, and figuratively to the human species. To ride rusty; to be sullen; called also to ride grub.
WORD GRUBBERS		Verbal critics, and also persons who use hard words in common discourse.