scrabbly

scrab·bly

[skrab-lee]
adjective, scrab·bli·er, scrab·bli·est.
1.
insignificantly small or sparse: scrabbly tufts of grass sprouting from the parched lawn.
2.
scratchy; raspy.

Origin:
1940–45; scrabble + -y1

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scrabbly

adjective
sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods" 
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Scrabbly is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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