grubbery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His strength and stamina were doubted; he was a youth of not more than 19 years of age, nearly six feet high, 12 stone in weight, but thought to have more gristle than bone: his victualling office had also been some time out of commission; however, the keen air of Hampstead, added to a good grubbery, had not only produced an improvement of his frame, but had reduced the odds against him, […]"
- "Patterned after the grubberies and saloons frequented by hungry prospectors, the restaurant satisfies hearty appetites with savory appetizers […]"
- ""From thieving Arabs to Jewish grubbery, it had to be the daughter of a wheel merchant.""
- "As another comes with blue-eyed guilt, bed / dressed in morning grubbery in your mind, […]"
- "Judging by the way political sex scandals had operated since time immemorial, any seasoned bettor would have sworn that Trump's then-nascent political career was over on Oct. 7, 2016, when The Washington Post published the "Access Hollywood" tape baring the Donald in all his grubbery."
Etymology
From grub + -ery.