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Scrabbly
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- 1 Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
"Once they were young and little and rather "scrabbly." They were given to loud laughter, to whispers, to scribbling pictures, and to mischievous glances."
- 2 Characterized by unusual letters (those that have a high score in the game Scrabble).
"Amy Reynaldo, the Crossword Fiend blogger, labels the richest alphabetical specimens as Scrabbly, an adjective I'm happy to spread."
- 3 Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
"My mount struggled up the last few feet of scrabbly rock."
- 4 Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
"The button was a bit awkward for some people's thumbs - big, beefy thumbs found it on the small side, while long, elegant nails found it rather scrabbly."
- 5 Scribbly.
"The lines of the devices were very scrabbly, and the blue was muddy, and the red was a streaky pink, and Eddy looked very doubtfully at them;"
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- 6 Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
"After a rather scrabbly lunch, eaten with all the children sprawling over the table — they are brick red in colour and have tight rings of black hair and beady eyes — I walked out with my host and hostess in the rain..."
- 7 Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
"He remembered it well — the scrabbly coloured boats, drawn on to the shingle, painted and chipped with religious legends, the big kerosene lamps, the black nets."
- 8 Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
"The warm climate must make those qualities grow as abundantly as the vegetation — and all from a scrabbly soil."
- 9 Stunted.
"We followed a well-worn trail that led across windswept slopes, punctuated with scrabbly vegetation and weathered boulders and dotted with occasional stone-and-mud huts with thatched roofs."
- 10 Sparse and scraggly.
"Seen in the darkness, it was that of an evil-looking, thick-set savage, with a forbidding countenance dotted unevenly with scrabbly wisps of beard."
- 11 Impoverished, hardscrabble
"And there was the whole valley spread out down below us, the brown river looking blue and the fields that were so rusty-poor, close up, a fine green from that distance, and even our house with its scrabbly yard looking like a pretty little farm."
- 12 Rough, poor and uncultured.
"The modern mariner who fells his shipmate with a blow of the fist is vastly more interesting a study when he is theoretically one of the highest products of our vaunted civilization than when he is just a scrabbly deck-hand under Drake."
- 13 Having a rough texture; scratchy.
"I 'd hate to feel their scrabbly feet, wouldn't you?"
- 1 sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush wordnet
Etymology
From scrabble + -y.
From Scrabble + -y.
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