ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Grubling

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Grubling is a noun meaning A small, young, or miniature grub.

Meaning

A small, young, or miniature grub.

Example Sentences

Hurrying, sometimes leaping from boulder to boulder but never once glancing back or stopping to rest its heavy satchel, the grubling led them further down the gorge.
Her metal breast accoutrements thrust forward over a childless belly. In Nergal's society, the females did not go out with the warriors, but stayed in the caves with their grublings.
When Grubs, and Grublings, censure Fielding's Scenes, He cannot answer that which Nothing means: Scorn'd by the wise, and in their Filth secure, How should he damn the damn'd, or soil th' impure?
As they are fed up in this way several times a day the ugly grublings soon begin to grow in breadth and stature, until they suddenly burst forth into full-blown wasps, and immediately begin to relieve their mother of her multitudinous duties.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grubbing, grub, grubbery, mullygrubs, graftling, grade grubbing.

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