scrappy
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Scrappy
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| 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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scrappy1 (ˈskræpɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , -pier, -piest | |
| fragmentary; disjointed | |
| 'scrappily1 | |
| —adv | |
| 'scrappiness1 | |
| —n | |
| scrappy2 (ˈskræpɪ) | |
| —adj , -pier, -piest | |
| informal pugnacious | |
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Example sentences
Although it doesn't grow to enormous weight, the tenacious, saucer-shaped fish makes up for its size with a scrappy fight.
It was better to backtrack, every move elegantly reversed, than to climb in a clumsy or scrappy way.
Generations of eruptions have deposited thick layers of ash on which farmers raise scrappy crops of maize or other grains.
Such bitter language can seem a bit high-minded for the scrappy political arena.
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