subs. (general).—1. An eating-house. GRUBBING-CRIB FAKER = the landlord of a cheap cookshop. Fr., le nourrisseur; Sp., un ostalero. See GRUB SHOP, sense 2.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—Grubbery; grubby-, or grubbing-ken; grub-shop; guttle-shop; hash-house; mungarly casa; prog-shop; slap-bang shop; tuck-shop; waste-butt.
FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Un bourre-boyaux (popular = a stuff-your-guts); un claquedents (popular, also = a brothel, or punting-house); une guingette (general); une mangeoire (popular = a grubbery: manger = to eat); un mattais (popular); un gargot (thieves’).
GERMAN SYNONYM.—Achilebajes (from Heb., Ochal = to eat).
SPANISH SYNONYM.—Ostaleria, or Osteria (also = lush-crib).
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, s.v.
2. (tramps’).—A workhouse. For synonyms, see SPINNIKEN. Sometimes GRUBBIKEN.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, iii., 416. I know all the good houses, and the tidy GRUBBIKENS—that’s the unions where there’s little or nothing to do for the food we gets.
