scrabble
Meaning of scrabble
- scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something.
she scrabbled at the grassy slope, desperate for purchase
- an act of scratching or scrambling for something.
he heard the scrabble of claws behind him
- a game in which players build up words on a board from small lettered squares or tiles.
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘make marks at random, scrawl’): from Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben ‘to scrape’. The noun sense ‘struggle to achieve something’ is originally a North American usage dating from the late 18th century.
Information about scrabble
- The plural form of scrabble is: scrabbles.
- Languages in which scrabble is used:
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Hyphenation of scrabble
scrab-ble
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- scrabble is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
scrabble synonyms
Meaning scribble:
Meaning Scrabble:
Meaning search for (someone or something that is hard to locate or find):
Meaning search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands:
Meaning search unsystematically and untidily through something:
Meaning cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots:
Meaning propel (a boat) by pushing a pole against the bottom of a river, canal, or lake:
Meaning search in a clumsy and unmethodical manner:
Meaning search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste:
Meaning do or handle something clumsily:
Meaning be aware of (a person or object) through touching or being touched:
Meaning climb or move in an awkward and laborious way, typically using both hands and feet:
Meaning make one's way quickly or awkwardly up a steep gradient or over rough ground by using one's hands as well as one's feet:
Meaning feel or search with the hands; grope about:
Anagrams of scrabble
Words that rhyme with scrabble
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