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  • noun Plural form of grubworm.

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Examples

  • They'll eat grubworms, eggs, little birds, whatever they can find.

    CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Jack Hanna Lets the Fur Fly - January 11, 2001 2001

  • Fat grubworms and the flesh of any animal found dead was a great treat.

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

  • She warbled like a lark with his belly full o 'grubworms.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • Even poor old Mumga, half blind and almost entirely toothless, searching patiently for grubworms beneath a fallen log, represented to her a malignant spirit thirsting for the blood of little balus.

    Jungle Tales of Tarzan 1919

  • Tarzan watched them lazily from above as they scratched in the rotting loam for bugs and beetles and grubworms, or sought among the branches of the trees for eggs and young birds, or luscious caterpillars.

    Jungle Tales of Tarzan 1919

  • Motteux, or clodhopper, because, in the plowing season, she flies from clod to clod, inspecting the furrows rich in unearthed grubworms.

    The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • They act like our tribe was happy go lucky and we just like to go fishing all of the time, we like to eat grubworms, and we have no problems.

    The Deadbolt 2009

  • “What grubworms women are to crawl on their bellies through colorless marriages!

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • Well, not if liberal-media grubworms like you weren't determined to destroy the girl and her family in support of your beloved Messiah, you fucking jerk.

    Cold Fury 2008

  • "What grubworms women are to crawl on their bellies through colorless marriages!

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

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