gruge - See: NURSE A GRUDGE.

gruge - n. & v.
--n.

1 the larva of an insect, esp. of a beetle.
2 colloq. food.

--v.

(grubbed, grubbing)
1 tr. & intr. dig superficially.
2 tr. a clear (the ground) of roots and stumps. b clear away (roots etc.).
3 tr. (foll. by up, out) a fetch by digging (grubbing up weeds). b extract (information etc.) by searching in books etc.
4 intr. search, rummage.
5 intr. (foll. by on, along, away) toil, plod.

grub-screw a small headless screw, esp. used to attach a handle etc. to a spindle.

grubber n. (also in comb.). [ME, (v.) perh. corresp. to OE grybban (unrecorded) f. Gmc]

gruge - n.
(often attrib.) the world or class of literary hacks and impoverished authors. [name of a street (later Milton St.) in Moorgate, London, inhabited by these in the 17th c.]

gruge - adj.
(grubbier, grubbiest)
1 dirty, grimy, slovenly.
2 of or infested with grubs.

grubbily adv. grubbiness n.

gruge - n. & v.
US colloq. --n.

material or provisions supplied to an enterprise in return for a share in the resulting profits (orig. in prospecting for ore).

--v.

tr. provide with a grubstake.

grubstaker n.

gruge - n. & v.
--n.

a persistent feeling of ill will or resentment, esp. one due to an insult or injury (bears a grudge against me).

--v.

tr.
1 be resentfully unwilling to give, grant, or allow (a thing).
2 (foll. by verbal noun or to + infin.) be reluctant to do (a thing) (grudged paying so much).

grudger n. [ME grutch f. OF grouchier murmur, of unkn. orig.]