Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The name given in Australia to certain longicorn larvæ dug out of the roots of shrubs, or out of fallen trees, and roasted and eaten by the natives.

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Examples

  • They should buzz if they want to speak.4 Introduce I'm A Celebrity-style bushtucker challengesThe finalists should have to eat witchetty grubs while they're waiting to sing.

    2011: Celeb lists, unavoidable stars and sick 2011

  • I'm still mourning the no-show of confessional journalist Liz Jones, as I was looking forward to a vegan at a bushtucker trial, telling them where to shove their witchetty grubs.

    Health and safety rules should have a get-out clause | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • Isn't it all witchetty grubs and kangaroo testicles?

    One last thing... Gregg Wallace 2011

  • I'm a great believer in trying things, so I've eaten witchetty grubs, a mountain frog, ostrich and alligator.

    Monty Don: 'I often eat cakes while my fingers are caked in soil' John Hind 2010

  • The culinary genius forced down crocodile penis, a witchetty grub, which he likened to eating an oyster and two crocodile eyes.

    Croc Update (Gourmet Edition) Bill Crider 2007

  • The culinary genius forced down crocodile penis, a witchetty grub, which he likened to eating an oyster and two crocodile eyes.

    Archive 2007-11-11 Bill Crider 2007

  • As a child, Latz remembers collecting, with his Aboriginal friends, about twenty-five witchetty grubs from one tree in an hour or so of leisurely work, locating their boreholes and fishing them out with the hooked wiry stem of the curly windmill grass.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • As a child, Latz remembers collecting, with his Aboriginal friends, about twenty-five witchetty grubs from one tree in an hour or so of leisurely work, locating their boreholes and fishing them out with the hooked wiry stem of the curly windmill grass.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Why don't you think about eating a nice skewer of roasted witchetty grubs?

    self-promotion salad johnjosephadams 2007

  • But have no fear, I'll watch it on your behalf and let you know who's eating the witchetty grubs al dente and the kangaroo testicles au naturel.

    48 entries from November 2006 2006

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  • Grub.

    June 24, 2008

  • Also the witchetty bush, Acacia kempeana.

    June 24, 2008

  • Found a witchetty grub in the compost in my garden on Saturday. Didn't eat it.

    June 24, 2008

  • Good boy!

    June 24, 2008