The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; “a miner’s begrimed face”; “dingy linen”; “grimy hands”; “grubby little fingers”; “a grungy kitchen”
grubby
(adjective) infested with grubs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
grubbier
comparative form of grubby
Source: Wiktionary
Grub"by, a. Etym: [From Grub.]
Definition: Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.] The grubby game of marbles. Lond. Sat. Rev.
Grub"by, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.