Scrabbly

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.

   “Once they were young and little and rather "scrabbly." They were given to loud laughter, to whispers, to scribbling pictures, and to mischievous glances.”

2. sıfat Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.

   “My mount struggled up the last few feet of scrabbly rock.”

3. sıfat Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.

   “The button was a bit awkward for some people's thumbs - big, beefy thumbs found it on the small side, while long, elegant nails found it rather scrabbly.”

4. sıfat Scribbly.

   “The lines of the devices were very scrabbly, and the blue was muddy, and the red was a streaky pink, and Eddy looked very doubtfully at them;”

5. sıfat Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.

   “After a rather scrabbly lunch, eaten with all the children sprawling over the table — they are brick red in colour and have tight rings of black hair and beady eyes — I walked out with my host and hostess in the rain...”

6. sıfat Of poor quality; poorly maintained.

   “He remembered it well — the scrabbly coloured boats, drawn on to the shingle, painted and chipped with religious legends, the big kerosene lamps, the black nets.”

7. sıfat Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.

   “The warm climate must make those qualities grow as abundantly as the vegetation — and all from a scrabbly soil.”

8. sıfat Stunted.

   “We followed a well-worn trail that led across windswept slopes, punctuated with scrabbly vegetation and weathered boulders and dotted with occasional stone-and-mud huts with thatched roofs.”

9. sıfat Sparse and scraggly.

   “Seen in the darkness, it was that of an evil-looking, thick-set savage, with a forbidding countenance dotted unevenly with scrabbly wisps of beard.”

10. sıfat Impoverished, hardscrabble

    “And there was the whole valley spread out down below us, the brown river looking blue and the fields that were so rusty-poor, close up, a fine green from that distance, and even our house with its scrabbly yard looking like a pretty little farm.”

11. sıfat Rough, poor and uncultured.

    “The modern mariner who fells his shipmate with a blow of the fist is vastly more interesting a study when he is theoretically one of the highest products of our vaunted civilization than when he is just a scrabbly deck-hand under Drake.”

12. sıfat Having a rough texture; scratchy.

    “I 'd hate to feel their scrabbly feet, wouldn't you?”

13. sıfat Characterized by unusual letters (those that have a high score in the game Scrabble).

    “Amy Reynaldo, the Crossword Fiend blogger, labels the richest alphabetical specimens as Scrabbly, an adjective I'm happy to spread.”