different between bedraggled vs grubby

English

Etymology

bedraggle +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??d?æ?l?d/
• Hyphenation: be?drag?gled

Adjective

bedraggled (comparative more bedraggled, superlative most bedraggled)

1. Wet and limp; unkempt.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, “The Chase.—Third Day.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 30847311; republished as Moby Dick or The White Whale (Famous Sea Stories), Boston, Mass.: The St. Botolph Society, 53 Beacon Street, 1892 (8th printing, February 1922), OCLC 237074, page 527:

     A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.

2. Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.

Synonyms

• (decaying, decrepit or dilapidated): See Thesaurus:ramshackle

Derived terms

• bedraggledly
• bedraggledness

Related terms

• bedraggle
• draggled
• draggle-tail
• draggle-tailed

Translations

Verb

bedraggled

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedraggle.

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.