subs. (thieves’).—Food. [A diminutive of GRUB (q.v.).]

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  1818.  MAGINN, Vidocq’s Slang Song Versified.

        I pattered in flash, like a covey knowing,
  ‘Ay, bub or GRUBBY, I say.’ …
  Tol lol, &c.

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  Adj. (colloquial).—Dirty; slovenly.

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  d. 1845.  HOOD, A Black Job.

                  Like a GRUBBY lot
Of sooty sweeps or colliers.

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