Grubby vs Dirt - What's the difference?
grubby | dirt |
Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
Having grubs in it.
(US, dialect) Any species of Cottus ; a sculpin.
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
As nouns the difference between grubby and dirt
is that grubby is (us|dialect) any species of cottus ; a sculpin while dirt is animal.As an adjective grubby
is dirty, unwashed, unclean.grubby
English
Adjective
(er)- He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
Noun
(grubbies)dirt
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy