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adjective
1.
produced by a hack; poor in quality: a grubstreet book.
noun
2.
Grub Street (def. 2).
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Grubstreet
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Origin:
1640–50
1640–50
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grubstreet
1630, "originally the name of a street in Moorfields in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet" [Johnson]. Name changed 1830 to Milton Street (after a local developer) then erased entirely 1970s by the Barbicon
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