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1. • • According to Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, Grub Street was “originally the name of a street in Moorfields in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet.”
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   What does Grub Street mean?

   • How ‘Grub Street’ came to refer to hack work. The name Grub Street denotes the world or class of literary hacks. As an adjective, also spelt Grubstreet, it means having the nature of literary hack work. In A Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1755), the English lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-84) gave this explanation: Grubstreet.

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   What is a Grub Street writer?

   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Grub Street, the world of literary hacks, or mediocre, needy writers who write for hire. The term originated in the 18th century and was frequently used by writers. There was even a Grub-Street Journal.

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   Was there a Grub Street Journal?

   • There was even a Grub-Street Journal. According to Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, Grub Street was “originally the name of a street in Moorfields in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet.”

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   What does Grub mean?

   • The Oxford English Dictionary dates the meaning of the noun “grub” (sense 2b) as a “person of mean abilities, a dull industrious drudge, a literary hack” to 1653, in Thomas Urquhart’s translation of Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel: “So saith a Turlupin or a new start-up grub of my books” (Prologue, Book 1, 6).

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   Who first used GrubStreet as a pejorative adjective?

   • The Oxford English Dictionary cites John Taylor, the “water poet” of London, as the first to use “Grub-street” as a pejorative adjective: “When strait I might descry, / The Quintescence of Grubstreet, well distild / Through Cripplegate in a contagious Map” (Taylor 1622: A8v).

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   Was Grub street obliterated?

   • But Grub Street, though obliterated physically, was not entirely erased as legend. One biography of a typical hack was called Ned Ward of Grub Street (Troyer 1946 ), and Philip Pincus compiled a popular book of anecdote from the period called Grub St. Stripped Bare (1968).

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   Grub Street was originally a real place, an existing street in London in the Cripplegate area, that derived its name from the refuse ditch (grub) that ran alongside. It had a high concentration of taverns, dosshouses, coffeehouses, and brothels – as well as publishers, booksellers, and authors.

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   What's the meaning of the phrase 'Grub Street'? Grub Street was a pejorative name for the residence of a class of hack writers and pamphleteers in the Moorfields district of London in the 17th century. Latterly it has been used as a generic term of disparagement for hack journalism.

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   Dec 23, 2017 · The name Grub Street denotes the world or class of literary hacks. As an adjective, also spelt Grubstreet, it means having the nature of literary hack work. In A Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1755), the English lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-84) gave this explanation: Grubstreet.

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   May 29, 2018 · Grub Street is a derogatory term for bad writing. Its figurative use was commonplace by the early 18th cent. and Jonathan Swift referred to a paper he was involved with as ‘a little upon the Grub-Street’.

7. www.grubstreetproject.net › essays › grubstreetmythThe Grub Street Myth :: Grub Street Project

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   The Grub Street Myth. Pat Rogers, University of South Florida June 2023. The term derives from a real street, running northwards from the City Wall near the ancient barrier of Cripplegate, which stood on the site until it was demolished in 1760, and also gave its name to one of the municipal wards. The road lay in the large parish of St Giles ...

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   Near Moorfields in London. In 1755 “Grubstreet” was defined in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language: “Originally the name of a street near Moorfields in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet.