scrabbly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
adj
adj
adj
adj
Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "Once they were young and little and rather "scrabbly." They were given to loud laughter, to whispers, to scribbling pictures, and to mischievous glances."
- "With their carapace they survive the ordeal of the nets, frisking into scrabbly action as soon as they can."
- "That night under the porch there was a scrabbly sound, like a dog in a gravel pile, going steadily on under barks and groans and screeches. Something was digging down deeper."
- "The scrabbly style of running so remarked upon by the press was partly a result of Casey's efforts not to let that happen."
- "They just whisked inside, little paws all scrabbly with excitement,"
- "We went turtle-hunting and found a lot of scrabbly things that I couldn't bear, but Faith and Ernest like them."
Etymology
From scrabble + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more scrabbly (comparative)
most scrabbly (superlative)