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Definition of Hardscrabble
1. Adjective. Barely satisfying a lower standard. "The sharecropper's hardscrabble life"
Definition of Hardscrabble
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to land that takes a lot of work in order to farm and even then is not very productive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hardscrabble
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardscrabble
Literary usage of Hardscrabble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bygone Days in Chicago: Recollections of the "Garden City" of the Sixties by Frederick Francis Cook (1910)
"hardscrabble," as a term indicative of human abodes, had a fascination for me
from the moment I heard it mentioned, which was almost immediately on my ..."
2. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1888)
"... Bdv., with the pale var. of the female, pallida, Ckll. After lunch we pushed
on, and by evening reached the upper part of the hardscrabble district, ..."
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