Grubby Covered Adjective Dirty Chocolate Thickly Ingrained Dirt

grubby

adjective

کثیف dirty, filthy, messy, nasty, squalid, grubby

شلخته sloppy, grubby, slovenly, frumpy, slipshod, blowzy

کرمو grubby

کرم خورده wormy, carious, grubby, vermiculate, worm-eaten

Grubby things are really dirty, like your little sister's grubby hands after she's spent an afternoon making mud pies.

Have you ever seen a little kid eat a chocolate ice cream cone on a hot day? Picture the kid's face covered in chocolate and you'll have a good idea of what grubby means! This adjective dates back to the mid-19th century, from grub, which means "insect larva" and which was once colloquially used to mean "dirty child."