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provender
English
Etymology
From Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”). Doublet of prebend.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??v?nd?/, /?p??v?nd?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??v?nd?/
Noun
provender (usually uncountable, plural provenders)
- (dated) Food, especially for livestock.
- Synonyms: fodder; see also Thesaurus:food
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 12:
- The farm which supplied to him ungrudging provender had all his vast capacity for work in willing exercise …
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
- He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
Translations
Verb
provender (third-person singular simple present provenders, present participle provendering, simple past and past participle provendered)
- (transitive) To feed.
- 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine (volume 12, page 35)
- One night, after several days of continuous plowing, and after the ox and mule had been stabled and provendered for the night, the ox said to the mule […]
- 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine (volume 12, page 35)
Further reading
- provender in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- provender in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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grub
English
Etymology
From hypothetical Old English *grubbian, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Old High German grubil?n (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”). The noun sense of "larva" (c. 1400) may derive from the notion of "digging insect" or from the possibly unrelated Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”)."
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
grub (countable and uncountable, plural grubs)
- (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
- Synonym: larva
- (uncountable, slang) Food.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
- (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
- (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
- (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
Derived terms
- grubby
- grublike
- witchety grub
Translations
See also
- caterpillar
- maggot
- worm
Verb
grub (third-person singular simple present grubs, present participle grubbing, simple past and past participle grubbed)
- To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
- to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
- 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter
- They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers.
- (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
- (slang, dated) To eat.
- "John dear , we must give this little fellow his supper , you know ."
“ Of course we must , my darling . "
“ He has been grubbing and grubbing at school, ” said Bella
- "John dear , we must give this little fellow his supper , you know ."
Translations
Anagrams
- -burg, Burg, burg
German
Pronunciation
Verb
grub
- singular past imperfect of graben
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gr?b?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rû?b/
Adjective
gr?b (definite gr?b?, comparative gr?blj?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- rough, coarse
- rude
Declension
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