grubbery

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A basic restaurant or cookshop. countable,slang
    — 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, […]
  2. The quality of being grasping; a tendency to grub. uncountable
    — "From thieving Arabs to Jewish grubbery, it had to be the daughter of a wheel merchant."

词形变化

grubberies plural

词源

From grub + -ery.
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