What is the difference between grub and maggot?
grub | maggot | Related terms |
(countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
(uncountable, slang) Food.
(obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up .
* Hare
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(slang) To supply with food.
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
A term of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.
(obsolete) A whimsy or fancy.
* 1620 , , Women Pleased , III.iv.
Maggot is a synonym of grub.
Maggot is a related term of grub.
In obsolete terms the difference between grub and maggot
is that grub is a short, thick man; a dwarf while maggot is a whimsy or fancy.As nouns the difference between grub and maggot
is that grub is an immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva while maggot is a soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.As a verb grub
is to scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.grub
English
(wikipedia grub)Noun
- (Carew)
Synonyms
* (immature insect): larva * : nosh, tuckerDerived terms
* grubby * witchetty grubVerb
(grubb)- to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
- They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
- (Charles Dickens)
Anagrams
* ----maggot
English
(wikipedia maggot)Noun
(en noun)- Drop and give me fifty, maggot .
- Mr. Beveridge's Maggot , an old country dance [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4199.htm].
- Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?