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scrabbly
scrab·ble S0163300 (skrăb′əl)v. scrab·bled, scrab·bling, scrab·bles v.intr.1. To scrape or grope about frenetically with the hands or paws: "They often scrabbled through kitchen drawers looking for coins to buy bread" (Steve Friedman).2. To move or climb with scrambling, disorderly haste: scrabbled down the rocks to the water.3. To struggle or work hard in a disorderly or desperate fashion: "For quite some time I scrabbled around, playing the piano at jazz bars, doing whatever ... journalism I could get" (Frank Conroy).4. To write hastily or make disordered markings; scribble.v.tr.1. To make or obtain by frenetic or desperate action: scrabble a living from soil depleted of nutrients.2. a. To scrape or scratch (a surface): "Tubal got him a pointed rod / And scrabbled the earth for corn" (Rudyard Kipling).b. To move or arrange hastily with the hands: "The next flat tombstone was covered with leaves. I scrabbled the dust away" (Ray Bradbury).3. To scribble or write down hastily: scrabbled the answer on a sheet of paper.n.1. The act or an instance of scrabbling.2. A scribble; a doodle.
[Dutch schrabbelen, from Middle Dutch, frequentative of schrabben, to scrape; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]
scrab′bler n.scrab′bly adj.scrabbly (ˈskræblɪ) adj1. scrabbling or groping about2. (Environmental Science) covered with stunted trees and scrubscrab•bly (ˈskræb li)
adj. -bli•er, -bli•est. scratchy; raspy. [1940–45] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | scrabbly - sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods"scrubbywooded - covered with growing trees and bushes etc; "wooded land"; "a heavily wooded tract" |
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