Grub

Portuguese Meaning

larva

lagarta

verme

bicho

cavar

escavar

fossar

levantar terra

desenterrar

desbravar

English Meaning

  1. To dig up by or as if by the roots: grubbed carrots with a stick.
  2. To clear of roots and stumps by digging: grubbed a small plot.
  3. Slang To obtain by importunity: grub a cigarette.
  4. To dig in the earth: grub for potatoes.
  5. To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.
  6. To toil arduously; drudge: grub for a living.
  7. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
  8. A drudge.
  9. Slang Food.