Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

witchety grub

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: witch-ety -grub
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths and beetles, especially the species Endoxyla leucomochla, traditionally eaten by Aboriginals in the Australian desert.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines."

Etymology

From witchety + grub, a partial calque of some Pama-Nyungan language (compare Arabana mako witjuti (“witchety grub”, from mako (“grub”) + witjuti (“witchety bush”))).

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

witchety grubs (plural) witchetty grub (alternative) witjuti grub (alternative)

Questions

What does witchety grub mean?: The large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths and beetles, especially the species Endoxyla leucomochla, traditionally eaten by Aboriginals in the Australian desert.
Where does witchety grub come from?: From witchety + grub, a partial calque of some Pama-Nyungan language (compare Arabana mako witjuti (“witchety grub”, from mako (“grub”) + witjuti (“witchety bush”))).

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