Toil vs Grub - What's the difference?
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labour, work
* 1908:
trouble, strife
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
* Denham
* Dryden
To labour; work.
To struggle.
To work (something); often with out .
* Holland
* Milton
To weary through excessive labour.
* Shakespeare
(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.
Toil is a related term of grub.
As nouns the difference between toil and grub
is that toil is labour, work while grub is (countable) an immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.As verbs the difference between toil and grub
is that toil is to labour; work while grub is to scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.toil
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ...he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
- As a Numidian lion, when first caught, / Endures the toil that holds him.
- Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
Verb
(en verb)- places well toiled and husbanded
- [I] toiled out my uncouth passage.
- toiled with works of war
Synonyms
* , (l)See also
* toil and moilAnagrams
* ----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)
