Definition of Scrappiest

1. Adjective. (superlative of scrappy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scrappiest

1. scrappy [adj] - See also: scrappy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrappiest

scrat
scratch-built
scratch along

Literary usage of Scrappiest

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

1. Goin' Fishin': Weather and Feed Facts; the Fresh-water Game Fish; the by Carroll Blaine Cook (1920)
"Right at the start, let me say that I am for the small-mouth, because he is the scrappiest game fish of the inland waters; he can kick up more of a rustling ..."

2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"Used to be the crack pitcher of the league, used to be its scrappiest guy in the coaching box. Used to be able to spill language that had rattlesnakes and ..."

3. William Wetmore Story and His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections by Henry James (1903)
"I find much of the romance even in the scrappiest jottings in ink and pencil, the abbreviated memoranda, the snatches of small heartbreaking arithmetic, ..."

4. The Field of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919)
"... topical and systematic introduction fails to bring the student in cantact with the great historical doctrines in other than the scrappiest fashion. ..."

5. Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, a Biography by Caroline Augusta Lloyd (1912)
"If you get the scrappiest little notes this week it is only because I am absolutely overwhelmed with work. Darrow's unexpected request . . . has entirely ..."

6. Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, a Biography by Caroline Augusta Lloyd (1912)
"If you get the scrappiest little notes this week it is only because I am absolutely overwhelmed with work. Darrow's unexpected request . . . has entirely ..."

7. A History of Modern Liberty by James Mackinnon (1908)
"... and Rushworth, the assistant clerk, was ordered to refrain from enlarging beyond the traditional limit of the scrappiest outline of debates. ..."

8. The Great Streets of the World by Richard Harding Davis, Andrew Lang, Francisque Sarcey, William Wetmore Story, Henry James, Paul Lindau, Isabel Florence Hapgood (1892)
"Some of them are exquisite, many are large, and even the scrappiest have an artful understanding, in the interest of color, with the waterways that edge ..."

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