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According to [[Samuel Johnson]]'s ''Dictionary'', the term was "originally the name of a street... much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." Johnson himself had lived and worked on Grub Street early in his career.  The contemporary image of Grub Street was popularised by [[Alexander Pope]] in his [[Dunciad]]. 


The street no longer exists, but Grub Street has since become a pejorative term for impoverished hack writers and writings of low literary value.

==Toponymy==
According to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] the [[verb]] grub translates as "To dig superficially; to break up the surface of (the ground); to clear (ground) of roots and stumps."  The earliest use of the word is in 1300, "Theif hus brecand, or gruband grund", and in 1572 "Ze suld your ground grube with simplicitie".<ref name="OED">{{(contracted; show full)
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