grubber

grubber

noun

Definition of GRUBBER

a person who does very hard or dull work <most of the inhabitants of the seedy town are just downtrodden grubbers living from paycheck to paycheck>

Synonyms dogsbody [chiefly British], drone, drudge, drudger, fag, foot soldier, grub, grubber, grunt, laborer, peon, plugger, slavey, slogger, toiler, worker

Related Words workhorse; coolie, serf

Near Antonyms goldbrick, shirker; drone, idler, lazybones, loafer, slouch, slug, sluggard