Grub

Posted by ESC May 21, 2001In reply to Grub posted by Bruce Kahl on May 21, 2001

I heard a word in a cop show the other nite--"...by the way, thanks for the grub."--referring to a just finished meal in a restaurant.
Anybody know the origin of "grub"?

There is a Middle English word "grubben" and Old English "grafan" meaning "to dig" which can be linked to the word "grave" as in final resting place.

Webster's has grub as a verb as "to dig in the ground especially for something that is difficult to find or extract"--so could "grub" be digging around in the dirt for a potato or carrot?

Anybody?
thanx
bk

"Whistlin' Dixie" by Robert Hendrickson has "GRUB UP -- To dig out. 'I been grubbing up a clump of willows outen my spring pasture for fifteen years.' (William Faulkner, 'The Hamlet' 1940)

Replies

Grub R. Berg 05/21/01
- Thanx to All! Bruce Kahl 05/21/01
  - Thanx R. Berg 05/22/01
Yes, but.... Bruce Kahl 05/21/01
- Yes, but.... Bob 05/21/01
  - No luck ESC 05/22/01