Grub
Portuguese Meaning
larva lagarta verme bicho cavar escavar fossar levantar terra desenterrar desbravar
English Meaning
- To dig up by or as if by the roots: grubbed carrots with a stick.
- To clear of roots and stumps by digging: grubbed a small plot.
- Slang To obtain by importunity: grub a cigarette.
- To dig in the earth: grub for potatoes.
- To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.
- To toil arduously; drudge: grub for a living.
- The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
- A drudge.
- Slang Food.