different between begrimed vs grubby

English

Verb

begrimed

1. simple past tense and past participle of begrime

Adjective

begrimed (not comparable)

1. Dirty, soiled, grimy.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 18,^[1]

     I knew Mr. Rochester; though the begrimed face, the disordered dress […] , the desperate and scowling countenance, the rough, bristling hair might well have disguised him.

   • 1989, Hillel Halkin (translator), Five Seasons by A. B. Yehoshua, Doubleday, Part 4, Chapter 25, p. 277,^[2]

     […] he was surprised to find some half-eaten stringbeans and a crushed pack of cigarettes in the garbage pail. Though he was tempted to salvage the half-empty pack, it was already much too begrimed.

Translations

English

Etymology

grub +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???bi/
• Rhymes: -?bi

Adjective

grubby (comparative grubbier, superlative grubbiest)

1. Dirty, unwashed, unclean.

   Synonyms: grimy; see also Thesaurus:unclean

2. (figuratively) Disreputable, sordid.
3. Having grubs in it.

Translations

Noun

grubby (plural grubbies)

1. (US, dialect) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.

Further reading

• “grubby”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.