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Bedraggled vs Grubby - What's the difference?

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Bedraggled is a related term of grubby.


As adjectives the difference between bedraggled and grubby

is that bedraggled is wet and limp; unkempt while grubby is dirty, unwashed, unclean.

As a verb bedraggled

is (bedraggle).

As a noun grubby is

(us|dialect) any species of cottus ; a sculpin.

bedraggled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • wet and limp; unkempt
  • decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
  • * 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
    • She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

    Derived terms

    * bedraggledly * bedraggledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bedraggle)

    • grubby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
    • He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
  • Having grubs in it.

    • Noun

    (grubbies)
  • (US, dialect) Any species of Cottus ; a sculpin.