Definition of Scrabbly

1. Adjective. Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush. "Open scrubby woods"

Exact synonyms: Scrubby
Similar to: Wooded
Derivative terms: Scrub, Scrubbiness

Definition of Scrabbly

1. raspy [adj -BLIER, -BLIEST] - See also: raspy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrabbly

scowther
scowthers
scowths
scrab
scrabbed
scrabbing
scrabbled
scrabbler
scrabblers
scrabbles
scrabblier
scrabbliest
scrabbling
scrabblings
scrabbly (current term)
scraber
scrabs
scrae
scraes
scraffle
scraffled
scraffles
scraffling
scrag
scrag end
scragged
scraggedness
scraggier

Literary usage of Scrabbly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Craftsman by Gustav Stickley (1905)
"... what strips and flaps, limber and stiff, fat and lean, wide and narrow, new and bright, old and illegible, scrabbly and filthy stuff I had to handle! ..."

2. Decorative Heraldry: A Practical Handbook of Its Artistic Treatment by George William Eve (1908)
"The result, of course, being a mere scrabbly suggestion of a line in place of the firm beauty of bold ..."

3. Decorative Heraldry: A Practical Handbook of Its Artistic Treatment by George William Eve (1908)
"The r- -/i oi ;-.i; .. scrabbly suggestiv"i '-: H line in \-':-^-.- - beauty of bold c-ii^.nim^. ..."

4. The Bulletin Story Book: A Selection of Stories and Literary Sketches from by Bulletin (Sydney, Alfred George Stephens (1901)
"... upon the rolling sand-dunes covered with a scrabbly undergrowth of mallee, ti-tree and lianas. It looked searchingly and pitilessly down upon the rubble ..."

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