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Definition of Scrabbly
1. Adjective. Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush. "Open scrubby woods"
Definition of Scrabbly
1. raspy [adj -BLIER, -BLIEST] - See also: raspy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrabbly
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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