scrattle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To scratch.
verb
To make shift, to manage to get along.
Example Sentences
- "But if I'm duly sensible of this, And if I really fear to do amiss, How, George, how (in the name of wonder!) then, Dares my poor, puny, scurvy, scrattling pen Presume thy neat performances to trace, And, with mean words, thy beauteous works debase"
- "My husband says “What's the good of scrattling and saving, Edna, when in two–three years we might all be blown up by an atom bomb?"
Usage
- British usage
- Intransitive verb