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SCRUB, v.t. [This word is probably formed on rub, or its root, and perhaps scrape, L. scribo, may be from the same radix.]

To rub hard, either with the hand or with a cloth or an instrument; usually, to rub hard with a brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning, scouring or making bright; as, to scrub a floor; to scrub a deck; to scrub vessels of brass or other metal.

SCRUB, v.i. To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

SCRUB, n.

1. A mean fellow; one that labors hard and lives meanly.

2. Something small and mean.

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

3. A worn out brush.


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SCRUB, v.t. [This word is probably formed on rub, or its root, and perhaps scrape, L. scribo, may be from the same radix.]

To rub hard, either with the hand or with a cloth or an instrument; usually, to rub hard with a brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning, scouring or making bright; as, to scrub a floor; to scrub a deck; to scrub vessels of brass or other metal.

SCRUB, v.i. To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

SCRUB, n.

1. A mean fellow; one that labors hard and lives meanly.

2. Something small and mean.

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

3. A worn out brush.

SCRUB, n.

  1. A mean fellow; one that labors hard and lives meanly.
  2. Something small and mean. No little scrub joint shall come on my board. – Swift.
  3. A worn out brash. – Ainsworth.

SCRUB, v.i.

To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.


SCRUB, v.t. [Sw. skrubba, to scrub, to rebuke; Dan. skrubber. D. schrobben; G. schrubben. This word is probably formed on rub, or its root, and perhaps scrape, L. scribo, may be from the same radix; Ir. scriobam.]

To rub hard, either with the hand or with a cloth or an instrument; usually, to rub hard with a brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning, scouring or making bright; as, to scrub a floor; to scrub a deck; to scrub vessels of brass or other metal.


Scrub
  1. To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
  2. To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
  3. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

    "A sorry scrub." Bunyan.

    We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us. Goldsmith.

  4. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

    How solitary, how scrub, does this town look! Walpole.

    No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift.

    Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

  5. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. See Brush, above.

    [Australia *** South Africa]
  6. Something small and mean.
  7. A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
  8. A worn-out brush.

    Ainsworth.
  9. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
  10. One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.

    [U.S.]

    Scrub bird (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithidæ, as Atrichia clamosa; -- called also brush bird. -- Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii. -- Scrub robin (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.

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Scrub

SCRUB, verb transitive [This word is probably formed on rub, or its root, and perhaps scrape, Latin scribo, may be from the same radix.]

To rub hard, either with the hand or with a cloth or an instrument; usually, to rub hard with a brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning, scouring or making bright; as, to scrub a floor; to scrub a deck; to scrub vessels of brass or other metal.

SCRUB, verb intransitive To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

SCRUB, noun

1. A mean fellow; one that labors hard and lives meanly.

2. Something small and mean.

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

3. A worn out brush.

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