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[[Image:GrubStreet-London 300dpi.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=People congregate at the entrance to a narrow street, overlooked by two four-storey buildings.  Each floor of the right-most building projects further over the street than the floor below.  At the corner of each building, shops advertise their wares.  A cart is visible down the street, and one man appears to be carrying a large leg of meat.|19th-century ''Grub Street'' (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in ''(contracted; show full)rund", and in 1572 "Ze suld your ground grube with simplicitie".  Grub Street appears to have taken its name from a refuse ditch that ran alongside (grub), and variations on the name include Grobstrat (1217&ndash;1243), Grobbestrate (1277&ndash;1278), Grubbestrate (1281), Grubbestrete (1298), Grubbelane (1336), Grubstrete, and Crobbestrate.<ref>{{Harvnb|Clarke|2004|p=3}}</ref><ref name="Harbenp241"/><ref name="OED">{{Citation | title = grub
 (v) | url = http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50099520?query_type=word&queryword=grub+street&first=1&max_to_show=10&single=1&sort_type=alpha | publisher = dictionary.oed.com | format = Registration required | accessdate = 2009-07-03}}</ref><ref name="Rogersp24">{{Harvnb|Rogers|1980|p=24}}</ref>  Grub is also a derogatory [[noun]] applied to 'a person of mean abilities, a literary hack; in recent use, a person of slovenly attire and unpleasant manners.'<ref>{{Citation | title = grub (n) | url = http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50099518?query_type=word&queryword=grubby&first=1&max_to_show=10&single=1&sort_type=alpha | publisher = dictionary.oed.com | format = Registration required | accessdate = 2009-08-03}}</ref>

==History==
===Early history===
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