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scrab⋅ble
[skrab-uh
l] 
verb, -bled, -bling, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands. |
| 2. | to grapple or struggle with or as if with the claws or hands. |
| 3. | to scrawl; scribble. |
–verb (used without object)
| 4. | to scratch or dig frantically with the hands; claw (often fol. by at): scrabbling at a locked door to escape the flames. |
| 5. | to jostle or struggle for possession of something; grab or collect something in a disorderly way; scramble. |
–noun
| 6. | a scratching or scraping, as with the claws or hands. |
| 7. | a scrawled or scribbled writing. |
| 8. | a disorderly struggle for possession of something; scramble: After the fumble, there was a scrabble for the football. |
Related forms:
scrabbler, noun
Scrab⋅ble
[skrab-uhl] Trademark.
| a brand name for a game combining anagrams and crosswords in which two to four players use counters of various point values to form words on a playing board. |
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| scrab·ble (skrāb'əl) v. scrab·bled, scrab·bling, scrab·bles v. intr.
[Dutch schrabbelen, from Middle Dutch, frequentative of schrabben, to scrape; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.] scrab'bler n., scrab'bly adj. |
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Scrabble
Scrab"ble\ (skr[a^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrabbling.] [Freq. of scrape. Cf. Scramble, Scrawl, v. t.]1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way. --Bunyan. 2. To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. --1. Sam. xxi. 13.Scrabble
Scrab"ble\, v. t. To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.Scrabble
Scrab"ble\, n. The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.
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Language Translation for : Scrabble
Spanish:
ScrabbleScrabble,
German:
das Scrabbel,
Japanese:
字並べゲーム
scrabble
1537, "to scrawl, scribble," from Du. schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben "to scratch," from the same root as scrape (q.v.). Meaning "to struggle, scramble" first recorded 1638. The game Scrabble is from 1950, proprietary name (reg. U.S.), probably from scribble-scrabble "hasty writing" (1589), a reduplication of scribble.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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