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Grungy vs Grubby - What's the difference?

grungy | grubby |

As adjectives the difference between grungy and grubby

is that grungy is dirty; shabby; in disrepair while grubby is dirty, unwashed, unclean.

As a noun grubby is

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

grungy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Dirty; shabby; in disrepair.
  • Of or relating to grunge music.

    • References

    * * * " grungy" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)

    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.