English Dictionary

scrabbly

形容詞

Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around. / Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil. / Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling. / Scribbly. / Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.

日本語の意味

すり回す、掘り返すような特徴がある / ゆるく散乱した岩や崩れかけた土で覆われた / 進行が困難で手ごわい、苦労して進まねばならない / 落書きのような、乱雑な / 寄せ集められてできた、不規則またはいい加減な

The scrabbly puppy dug frantically through the pile of autumn leaves, scattering them in every direction.

そのひっかき回すような子犬は必死に秋の落ち葉の山を掘り返し、葉をあちこちに散らしました。

意味（1）

Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.

Once they were young and little and rather scrabbly. They were given to loud laughter, to whispers, to scribbling pictures, and to mischievous glances.

意味（2）

Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.

My mount struggled up the last few feet of scrabbly rock.

意味（3）

Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.

The button was a bit awkward for some people's thumbs - big, beefy thumbs found it on the small side, while long, elegant nails found it rather scrabbly.

意味（4）

Scribbly.

The lines of the devices were very scrabbly, and the blue was muddy, and the red was a streaky pink, and Eddy looked very doubtfully at them;

意味（5）

Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.

After a rather scrabbly lunch, eaten with all the children sprawling over the table — they are brick red in colour and have tight rings of black hair and beady eyes — I walked out with my host and hostess in the rain...

意味（6）

Of poor quality; poorly maintained.

He remembered it well — the scrabbly coloured boats, drawn on to the shingle, painted and chipped with religious legends, the big kerosene lamps, the black nets.

意味（7）

Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.

The warm climate must make those qualities grow as abundantly as the vegetation — and all from a scrabbly soil.

意味（8）

Stunted.

We followed a well-worn trail that led across windswept slopes, punctuated with scrabbly vegetation and weathered boulders and dotted with occasional stone-and-mud huts with thatched roofs.

意味（9）

Sparse and scraggly.

Seen in the darkness, it was that of an evil-looking, thick-set savage, with a forbidding countenance dotted unevenly with scrabbly wisps of beard.

意味（10）

Impoverished, hardscrabble

And there was the whole valley spread out down below us, the brown river looking blue and the fields that were so rusty-poor, close up, a fine green from that distance, and even our house with its scrabbly yard looking like a pretty little farm.

意味（11）

Rough, poor and uncultured.

The modern mariner who fells his shipmate with a blow of the fist is vastly more interesting a study when he is theoretically one of the highest products of our vaunted civilization than when he is just a scrabbly deck-hand under Drake.

意味（12）

Having a rough texture; scratchy.

I 'd hate to feel their scrabbly feet, wouldn't you?

more scrabbly （ comparative ）

most scrabbly （ superlative ）