scrub
/skɹʌb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!"
- "No little scrub joint shall come on my board."
- "oak scrub"
- "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn."
- "A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind."
- "We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: shrobbe, scrybb, scrobben, schrobben
Usage
Inflected Forms
more scrub (comparative)
most scrub (superlative)
scrubs (plural)
scrubs (present, singular)
scrubbing (participle, present)
scrubbed (participle, past)
scrubbed (past)