grubby, exiguous, grub, carbo-load, the Bubba administration

Terry McAuliffe once called himself a "salesman". Bill Clinton's presidency was his "product". To his detractors, Mr McAuliffe represents all that was grubby about the Bubba administration. But young voters in Virginia, where he is running for governor, don't remember much of that. They recall the Clinton boom but not the scandals. All of this boosts Mr McAuliffe http://econ.st/1hIh6ey

How to Carbo-Load for a Marathon
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
There is one element that can still be tweaked in the days before a marathon, two new studies show: what to eat.

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For many weeks I had been tweaking fetchmail rather incrementally while feeling like the interface design was serviceable but grubby—inelegant and with too many exiguous options hanging out all over. The options to dump fetched mail to a mailbox file or standard output particularly bothered me, but I couldn't figure out why.

cárbo lòading[cárbo lòading]

（運動選手の）炭水化物の集中摂取. ▼持久力が高まる.

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ex·ig·u·ous (ĭg-zĭg'yū-əs, ĭk-sĭg'-)

adj.
Extremely scanty; meager.

[From Latin exiguus, from exigere, to measure out, demand. See exact.]

grubby
adjective
1 INFORMAL dirty:
He was wearing some old shorts and a grubby T-shirt.
Don't wipe your grubby hands on my clean towel!

2 DISAPPROVING If you describe an activity or someone's behaviour as grubby, you do not think that it is honourable or acceptable:
She sees the business of making money as just grubby opportunism.
He doesn't want this story to get into the grubby hands of the tabloid press (= to be obtained by newspapers who are not honourable).
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tweak
verb [T]
1 to pull and twist with a small sudden movement:
Standing in front of the mirror she tweaked a strand of hair into place.

2 to change slightly, especially in order to make more correct, effective, or suitable:
The software is pretty much there - it just needs a little tweaking.
You just need to tweak the last paragraph and then it's done.

tr.v., tweaked, tweak·ing, tweaks.

1. To pinch, pluck, or twist sharply.
2. To adjust; fine-tune.
3. To make fun of; tease.

n.

1. A sharp, twisting pinch.
2. A teasing remark or action; a joke.

[Probably variant of dialectal twick, from Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian.]

tweaky tweak'y adj.

tweak
noun [C]

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grub[grub]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[grʌ'b]
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[名]

1 幼虫, 地虫.

2 無精な人；((米))いやな仕事をこつこつやる人.

3 [U]((略式))食べ物

No work, no grub.
働かざるもの食うべからず.

━━[動]（〜bed, 〜・bing）(他)

1 …を掘る；…を根こそぎにする, 掘り出す, 捜し出す((up, out))

grub up the roots of a tree
木の根を掘り出す.

2 ((俗))…に食物を与える.

3 ((米俗))…を（…から）（返す意志もなく）借りる；くすねる((off, from ...))

grub a cigarette
タバコを1本せしめる.

4 〈記録・データなどを〉骨おって手に入れる.

━━(自)

1 ((略式))掘る；掘って（…を）捜す((for ...))；（…を）くまなく捜し回る((about, around/for ...)).

2 あくせく働く；熱心に研究する.