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hard⋅scrab⋅ble
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ˈhɑrdˌskræb
əl
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–adjective
providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding:
the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
Origin:
1795–1805,
Americanism
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hard·scrab·ble
(härd'skrāb'əl)
adj. Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal:
the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.
n. Barren or marginal farmland.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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