Grub vs Weevil - What's the difference?
grub | weevil |
(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 .
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(slang) To supply with food.
Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea. Many of them have a distinctive snout.
Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea .
Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil.
As nouns the difference between grub and weevil
is that grub is an immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva while weevil is any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea. Many of them have a distinctive snout.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)