Grubbing vs Grubling - What's the difference?
grubbing | grubling |
The act by which something is grubbed, or dug up.
* 1976 , Occasional Paper
A small, young, or miniature grub.
*1880 , Jenny and the insects; or, Little toilers and their industries - Page 117:
*1892 , The Humming Bird - Volumes 2-5 - Page 53:
*1969 , Ronald Paulson, Thomas F. Lockwood, Henry Fielding: The Critical Heritage - Page 40 :
*2002 , Stephen Elboz, Temmi and the Frost Dragon :
*2010 , Michael McCloskey, Slave of Chu Kutall :
As nouns the difference between grubbing and grubling
is that grubbing is the act by which something is grubbed, or dug up while grubling is a small, young, or miniature grub.As a verb grubbing
is .grubbing
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- At the same time, there have been significant grubbings of these pears, especially in Tasmania where removals have been assisted by the Fruit Growing Reconstruction Scheme.
grubling
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Noun
(en noun)- When she has finished her hole, the inside of which she smooths with great care, in order that it may be comfortable for her little grublings , she lays an egg at the bottom, and then goes to work to provide a supply of food for the future wasp.
- As they are fed up in this way several times a day the ugly grublings soon begin to grow in breadth and stature, until they suddenly burst forth into full-blown wasps, and immediately begin to relieve their mother of her multitudinous duties.
- When Grubs, and Grublings , censure Fielding's Scenes, He cannot answer that which Nothing means: Scorn'd by the wise, and in their Filth secure, How should he damn the damn'd, or soil th' impure?
- Hurrying, sometimes leaping from boulder to boulder but never once glancing back or stopping to rest its heavy satchel, the grubling led them further down the gorge.
- Her metal breast accoutrements thrust forward over a childless belly. In Nergal's society, the females did not go out with the warriors, but stayed in the caves with their grublings .