GRUBBING

Definition: GRUBBING

GRUBBING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Grub

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GRUBBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Acquisition

Gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf; loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument; (remuneration).

Crosswords: GRUBBING

Now that was crime, you purse grubbing pukes and this is umm the penalty (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mexican grubbing out mesquite tree, El Indio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grubbing land. Mexican chopping mesquite, El Indio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grubbing out rabbit brush. Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "GRUBBING": grubbing hoe ♦ grubbing vines. Additional references.

Beginning with "GRUBBING": grubbing-mattock, grubbing-stick, grubbing-up.

Ending with "GRUBBING": money-grubbing.

Albanian

koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, clam, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, skinflint, stingy, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny). (various references)

Chinese 

除草� � (Grubbed). (various references)

Danish

grubning, grubber (rooter), undergrundsløsner (chisel, chisel cultivator, chisel plow, Orchard cultivator, subsoil cultivator, subsoil tiller), trærydning (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), rydning (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, grubbing vines, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), rodrydning. (various references)

Dutch

woelen (dig, envelop, grub, spade), rooiing, rooien (aim, dig, dig up, excavate, grub, intend, lift, pull up), ontginning (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, extraction, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil, reclamation, working), ontginnen van boomvegetatie (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), ontginnen (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, extract, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil, win), het terrein vrijmaken van kreupelhout (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil). (various references)

Finnish

raivaus (clearing), raivaaminen (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), pellonraivaus (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil). (various references)

French

fouillage, essouchage, essartage (clearing of the ground), dessouchage, défrichement (clearing of the ground), défrichage (clearing of the ground), arrachage (grubbing vines). (various references)

German

Wuehlen, Waldrodung (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), Urbarmachung (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), Rodung (clearance, clearing), Roden (clear, grub, plough up, plow up), Neulandgewinnung (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), Neuland aufreißen (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), das Roden, Ausroden (to grub). (various references)

Greek 

σκάλισμα (carving, hoeing, intaglio, poke, poking), εκχέρσωση (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), αποπρέμνωση. (various references)

Italian

grufolare, sradicamento (digging rooted vines, eradication, rooting up), rottura del terreno (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), risodamento (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), estirpazione (eradication, extirpation), estirpamento (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, grubbing vines, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), dissodamento (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, deforestation, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), debbio (Ash farming, assarting, Burn-beating, Burning, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubbinggray.(various references)

Portuguese

desbravamento (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), arroteia (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), arroteamento (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), arranque (pluck). (various references)

Romanian

târnãcop-secure (grubber, grubbing-mattock), târnãcop de defrişat (grubbing-mattock). (various references)

Spanish

trabajos de roturación (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), roza (clearance, forest aisle), roturación del terreno (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), rotura (break, breakage, breaking, rupture, smash), escardar (weed, weeding), despeje vegetal (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), despalmitado (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), desmonte (clearance, detrital), descuaje (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, deforestation, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil), descepe, desbroce (assarting, brush management, brushing, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, ground clearance, ground clearing, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil, scrub clearance, slashing), artiga (assarting, bush and bog work, clearing, clearing of the ground, land clearing, land reclamation, pioneering, ploughing virgin soil). (various references)

Swedish

röjning (clearance, clearing, turnout), kultivering. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "GRUBBING": moneygrubbing. (additional references)

Words containing "GRUBBING": moneygrubbings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"GRUBBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glubbing, gribin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rubbing.

-2 letters: urging.

-3 letters: bring, bruin, burin, ruing, unrig.

-4 letters: brig, brin, bung, burg, burn, girn, grig, grin, grub, ring, ruin, rung.

-5 letters: bib, big, bin, bub, bug, bun, bur, gib, gig, gin, gnu, gun, nib, nub, rib, rig, rin, rub, rug, run, urb, urn.

+5 letters: moneygrubbing.