Adjective, : scrabbly tufts of grass sprouting from the parched lawn. From Dictionary.com.
Around the huts are scrabbly vegetable gardens, and patches of corn fields, most of them picked clean. From Wordnik.com. [Living on Pennies] Reference
A hideous screech lifted the hair on her neck, and something sprinted along the scrabbly rock, its crashing footfalls lingering in the stillness. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
His desire for a larger life than that of the tiny, scrabbly mountain farm had been early excited; it had persisted; it had increased steadily, though the possibility of its realization had seemed remote. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
And in our two-hour drive from the airport, he was amazed by the scrabbly red Southwestern landscape, so different from the green and trees we had at home in Brooklyn; he asked me the name of every piece of brush he could see. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Apart in One Piece] Reference
The group plays gritty, scrabbly free improv of the kind popular throughout European post-jazz circles in the 70s, all scrapes and rattles and occasional mournful tones from Jean's flute, his signature instrument but one he mostly leaves aside here in favor of various bowed instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Team Canada captain Ryan Ellis put Canada in front 2-1 at 10:35 in the second period with a goal that typified a scrabbly second period, scoring off a wide slapshot from the blue line that bounced in off Bobov's skate as he back into the net. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Team Canada captain Ryan Ellis put Canada in front 2-1 at 10:35 in the second period with a goal that typified a scrabbly second period, scoring off a wide slapshot from the blue line that bounced in off Bobkov's skate as he back into the net. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Consider the tricks of an acrobatic caterpillar (of the Lobster Moth) which in infancy looks like bird's dung, but after molting develops scrabbly hymenopteroid appendages and baroque characteristics, allowing the extraordinary fellow to play two parts at once (like the actor in Oriental shows who becomes a pair of intertwisted wrestlers): that of a writhing larva and that of a big ant seemingly harrowing it. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
A real soft touch-not all scrabbly like some I know! ". From Wordnik.com. [Mystery of the Anti]
She continued excitedly: "We went turtle-hunting and found a lot of scrabbly things that I couldn't bear, but Faith and Ernest like them. From Wordnik.com. [Jewel's Story Book] Reference
I’m in hunker down mode because it’s Spring tomorrow and even though there is icy blech coming from the sky today and a small scrabbly sounding mammal running around downstairs that I just do not feel up to investigating I can see a little mud in the ice of the driveway and I went out without a scarf today. From Wordnik.com. [abada abada › keep, she said] Reference
3) I find myself much more resigned to the removal of Australian pines, which, let's face it, are pretty ugly, wispy, scrabbly trees who put them in for decoration purposes) then to melalucca which are even more evil, but at least prettier about being evil. From Wordnik.com. [More randomness:] Reference
It's so scrabbly!. From Wordnik.com. [27th September '03] Reference
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