scrabblen.¹

/ˈskrab(ə)l/

Etymology: < scrabble v.

1. A scrawling character in writing, hence, a document composed of such characters. Also, a picture composed of or characterized by careless or hastily-executed line-work.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > a scribble or scrawl

scribblinga1555

scribble1577

scribblement1584

scrabble1842

scriggle1905

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > carelessly executed

scrabble1842

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > painting badly or carelessly > work

daubery1546

daubing1713

daub1761

scrabble1842

blotch1860

1842 P. F. Tytler in J. W. Burgon Mem. P. Tyler (1859) xiv. 311 Peregrine's letters they could read, but the Duchess of Suffolk..defied them..with her fearful scrabbles.

1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate i. 7 With some peaked scrabbles and round whirls intended for smoke.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Scrabble, a badly written log.

1881 J. Ruskin in 19th Cent. Oct. 517 Yesterday..came to me from the Fine Art Society, a series of twenty black and white scrabbles.

1908 Athenæum 11 Apr. 457/2 A composition of some grace, but much of it executed in a scrabble of lines which wants repose.

2. U.S. A scramble; a confused struggle, a ‘free-for-all’.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of

flitec1000

strifea1225

wara1300

pulla1400

lakec1420

contenta1450

stour?c1450

contentiona1500

pingle1543

agony1555

feudc1565

combat1567

skirmish1576

grapple1604

counter-scuffle1628

scuffle1641

agon1649

tug1660

tug of war1677

risse1684

struggle1692

palaver1707

hash1789

warsle1792

scrabble1794

set-to1794

go1823

bucklea1849

wrestle1850

tussle1857

head-to-head1884

scrum1905

battleground1931

shoot-out1953

mud-wrestle1986

1794 Gazette of U.S. 21 Feb. 3/2 The Frenchman..in a scrabble swore he would have another hem to his ruffle, and in the very scrabble lost his shirt.

1849 T. T. Johnson Sights Gold Region 66 We often got caught by the waves, and had a grand scrabble to reach dry land.

1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter 43 Whoever wins will win after the toughest scrabble you and me ever saw in Missouri politics.

3. The action or sound of scrabbling (scrabble v. 2a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > scrabbling or scratching

scrabbling1582

scrabbing1880

scrabble1894

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > scratching or scraping about

scrabbling1582

scrabble1894

1894 T. B. Aldrich Two Bites at Cherry 145 The next sound I heard was the scrabble of the animal's four paws as he landed on the gravelled pathway.

1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) i. 12 I could not hear her breathing, but I heard another sound... Someone else was trying, with a faint scrabble, to find his way out.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

Scrabblen.²

/ˈskrab(ə)l/

Forms: Also scrabble.

The proprietary name of a game in which players use tiles displaying individual letters to form words on a special board.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others

quek1376

quek-board1477

draughtsc1540

goose1597

mancala1687

pachisi1801

Chinese chequers1840

go1840

shogi1858

wari1866

wei ch'i1871

gobang1875

crokinole1885

Kono1895

salta1901

Snakes and Ladders1907

pegity1925

oware1929

monopoly1934

Scrabble1950

morabaraba1953

Chutes and Ladders1955

pentominos1975

Trivial Pursuit1982

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > word games

word-making and word-taking1879

lexicon1932

Scrabble1950

1950 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 Jan. 334/2 The Production and Marketing Corporation, Newtown, Conn... Scrabble. For Game including Board and Playing Pieces. Claims use since Dec. 1, 1948.

1953 New Yorker 30 May 17/2 We present for your edification the history of Scrabble, the biggest thing in games since Monopoly and maybe the biggest thing ever.

1953 New Yorker 30 May 18/1 It was as if everyone alive were suddenly clamoring to play Scrabble.

1954 Trade Marks Jrnl. 21 July 736/1 Scrabble... ‘Board games.’ Production and Marketing Corporation (a Corporation organised and existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, United States of America; Merchants).

1957 T. Girtin in Pick of Punch 150/1 My suspicions were first aroused while I was losing to my wife at ‘Scrabble’.

1959 C. Spry Favourite Flowers iii. 25 For relaxation I sometimes play the spelling game of Scrabble and in consequence am wearing to ribbons the unwieldy volumes of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xxvii. 450 He likes going home early,..and plays bridge or scrabble in the evenings.

1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face ix. 107 After the meal we played liar dice or Scrabble.

1978 J. Matson Dear Osborne xxii. 151 Scrabble, Shove Ha'penny and Draughts indicate the levels of skills and activities.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

ΚΠ

1954 Newsweek 26 Apr. 57 To help Scrabble fans, crossword-puzzle addicts, and other persons troubled for a word ending in ‘x’, ‘y’, or ‘z’, a ‘reverse’ dictionary has been compiled at the University of Massachusetts.

1956 N. Streatfeild Judith ii. 117 Cynthia sprawled over the Scrabble board.

1960 Sunday Express 11 Sept. 6/6 I leave it to Oscar, the Scrabble-playing cat, to dredge up obscure words.

1967 Sci. Amer. Sept. 268/1 The Double-Crostic and games of the Scrabble type can be thought of as combinatorial play in which 26 elements (letters) are arranged into sets (words).

1977 B. Garfield Recoil x. 103 Anna made a word on the Scrabble board and watched him enter the score.

Draft additions 1993

ˈScrabbler n. one who plays Scrabble.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others > player in specific game

Scrabbler1954

1954 Orleans & Jacobson More Fun with Scrabble i. 7 This book is designed to give the Scrabbler more opportunities to enjoy his Scrabble board and tiles.

1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1384/2 This innovative, intelligent and enjoyable dictionary will not serve for reading Hamlet or Burns..; scrabblers and crossword-puzzlers will find it uncooperative.

1989 Los Angeles Times 20 May v. 13/5 Higher-rated Scrabblers—like poker's master bluffers—frequently commit parricide with impunity.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

scrabblev.

/ˈskrab(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1600s scrable.

Etymology: < Dutch schrabbelen (in sense 2; for sense 1 compare schrabbelaar ‘bad writer, scrawler’, Verdam), frequentative of schrabben scrab v.

a. intransitive. To make marks at random; to write in rambling or scrawling characters; to scrawl, scribble.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > illegibly or untidily

scrabble1537

scribble1573

to scrawl it1611

scribble-scrabble1847

1537 Bible (Matthew's) 1 Sam. xxi. 13 And he..raued in their handes and scrabled on the dores of the gate. [So 1611.]

1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe xlvii. 425 [They] frame such compositions of sacred lines, as men in phrenzie..do out of scrabled walls or painted cloaths.

a1628 J. Preston Serm. before His Majestie (1630) 86 We reckon men mad..when they scrabble vpon the walls.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 202 Scrabble, to write in an uncouth and unsightly manner; to make unmeaning marks, as boys often do with chalk on a wall or gate.

a1889 in Baring-Gould & Sheppard Songs of West (1905) 67 So with his finger dipp'd in blood, He scrabbled on the stones.

b. transitive. To write or depict (something) in a scrawling manner; also, to scrawl upon (something).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily

scribblec1456

bescribble1582

scrawl1612

scratch1806

scribble-scrabble1847

scrabble1856

squiggle1942

1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain (1879) ii. v. 386 I do scrabble down things that tease me by running in my head, when I want to clear my brains.

1857 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters ii. 21 One of my first attempts at a work of art was to scrabble his initials with my fingers, in red paint, on the house-door.

1883 Spectator 5 May 557 Technically the painting is better..though the white ruff of the collie could be improved by being toned down, and not being scrabbled about so much.

1894 Cornhill Mag. June 635 The face of the cliff is..scrabbled all over with marks of men's hands making homes for themselves in the living rock.

a. intransitive. Of an animal: To scratch about hurriedly with the claws or paws; hence, of a person, to scratch or scrape about with the hands or feet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > scratch about

scrat1556

scrabble1600

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > scratch or scrape about

scrat1556

scrabble1600

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xv. 93 Cast out..fresh straw right ouer against the barne, where the pullen vse to scrabble.

1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous xiii. 240 Tis a low, Dunghil spirit; fit for nothing but to rake, and scrabble in the dirt.

1863 Wood in Intellectual Observer IV. 22 The mole..then scrabbled about until he came upon the rest of the worm.

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 74 Gangs of the prying gull That shriek and scrabble on the riven hatches.

1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth (1906) 62 Upon which Victorine looked coy, and began scrabbling with her toes on the parquet.

b. transitive. To make scratching movements with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > make scratching movements

scrabble1890

1890 W. H. Pollock in Longman's Mag. Aug. 406 The parrot..scrabbled his beak on the edge of his food-can.

3. intransitive. Of a person: To scramble on hands and feet; to stumble or struggle along; literal and figurative; also occasionally of an animal. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > scramble

scrawl1530

sprawl1582

scramblea1586

scrabble1638

scrubblec1854

1638 2nd Relat. Accidents Wydecombe 23 Then presently the rest of the people scrabled forth the Church as well as they could.

1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §198 I did liken myself..unto..a child that was fallen into a mill-pit, who, though it could make some shift to scrabble and sprawl in the water, yet [etc.].

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 167 Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.

1738 Universal Spectator 11 Nov. 3/3 The Hog had scrabbled up Stairs, shook the Child out of its blankets, [and] kill'd it.

1742 J. Wesley Extract of Jrnl. 1 Mar. (1749) 32 The boat..was driven down among the rocks: on one of which we made shift to scrabble up.

1774 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 12 One member of the General Court, he said, as they came down stairs after their dissolution at Salem said to him, ‘Though we are killed, we died scrabbling, did not we?’

1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 115 Scrabbling out of the cavity, without assistance.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 202 I have hard work to get a living, but I hope I shall manage to scrabble on.

1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. vi. 106 A dozen or so of poor creatures,..too tipsy to battle with the wind,..wallowed upon sacks, and scrabbled under the stanchion-boards, where the gaiety [of the Fair] had been.

1900 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea 184 The poor possessors of only a four-oared galley hope to rise to the dignity of a lugger, so that they may quit scrabbling along the shores.

4. transitive. To scratch or rake (something) up, off, out, etc. hurriedly; to obtain by scratching or raking about.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > remove or displace by scratching, scraping, stripping, or cutting

bestrip1065

file?c1225

to cut awayc1320

raze1419

screeve?1440

rakec1475

to scrape out, forth1530

scrata1560

scrabble1657

scamble1707

peel1787

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by searching

findOE

forage1630

scrabble1657

to grope out1701

routc1776

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip by scraping > a covering

scrapea1382

scratc1500

detract1607

scrabble1808

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > (as) with a rake

rakea1420

rive1440

fidder1611

scrabble1899

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > make a hole by scratching or scraping

scrabble1905

1657 J. Bunyan Vind. Gospel Truths (1862) II. 203 How dost thou run about the bush, seeking to scrabble up an answer.

1658 F. Osborne Trad. Mem. Raigne Iames 85 in Hist. Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & Iames The King..casting himselfe upon the heap scrabled out the quantity of 2 or 3 hundred poundes.

1808 Sporting Mag. 32 82 The wool, with part of the skin scrabbled off.

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 121 The snow had been scrabbled up by the puffed hands in the death agony.

1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 95 The trimmers must lie flat and scrabble the coal away as fast as it is pelted down.

1905 E. Nesbit Amulet i, in Strand Mag. May 587/2 It scrabbled a hasty hole in the sand.

5. intransitive. To struggle or scramble for (something).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (intransitive)] > try to obtain > by struggling with others

scamble1539

scramblec1590

scrabble1697

1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife iii. 34 That Phantome of Honour, which men in every Age have so contemn'd, they have thrown it amongst the Women to scrable for.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 399 A generous juvenile ‘scrammles’ a handful ‘o' peis’, which are instantly ‘scrabbled’ for.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1794

n.²1950

v.1537

单词	scrabble
释义	scrabblen.¹ /ˈskrab(ə)l/ Etymology: < scrabble v. 1. A scrawling character in writing, hence, a document composed of such characters. Also, a picture composed of or characterized by careless or hastily-executed line-work. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > a scribble or scrawl scribblinga1555 scribble1577 scribblement1584 scrabble1842 scriggle1905 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > carelessly executed scrabble1842 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > painting badly or carelessly > work daubery1546 daubing1713 daub1761 scrabble1842 blotch1860 1842 P. F. Tytler in J. W. Burgon Mem. P. Tyler (1859) xiv. 311 Peregrine's letters they could read, but the Duchess of Suffolk..defied them..with her fearful scrabbles. 1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate i. 7 With some peaked scrabbles and round whirls intended for smoke. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Scrabble, a badly written log. 1881 J. Ruskin in 19th Cent. Oct. 517 Yesterday..came to me from the Fine Art Society, a series of twenty black and white scrabbles. 1908 Athenæum 11 Apr. 457/2 A composition of some grace, but much of it executed in a scrabble of lines which wants repose. 2. U.S. A scramble; a confused struggle, a ‘free-for-all’. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of flitec1000 strifea1225 wara1300 pulla1400 lakec1420 contenta1450 stour?c1450 contentiona1500 pingle1543 agony1555 feudc1565 combat1567 skirmish1576 grapple1604 counter-scuffle1628 scuffle1641 agon1649 tug1660 tug of war1677 risse1684 struggle1692 palaver1707 hash1789 warsle1792 scrabble1794 set-to1794 go1823 bucklea1849 wrestle1850 tussle1857 head-to-head1884 scrum1905 battleground1931 shoot-out1953 mud-wrestle1986 1794 Gazette of U.S. 21 Feb. 3/2 The Frenchman..in a scrabble swore he would have another hem to his ruffle, and in the very scrabble lost his shirt. 1849 T. T. Johnson Sights Gold Region 66 We often got caught by the waves, and had a grand scrabble to reach dry land. 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter 43 Whoever wins will win after the toughest scrabble you and me ever saw in Missouri politics. 3. The action or sound of scrabbling (scrabble v. 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > scrabbling or scratching scrabbling1582 scrabbing1880 scrabble1894 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > scratching or scraping about scrabbling1582 scrabble1894 1894 T. B. Aldrich Two Bites at Cherry 145 The next sound I heard was the scrabble of the animal's four paws as he landed on the gravelled pathway. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) i. 12 I could not hear her breathing, but I heard another sound... Someone else was trying, with a faint scrabble, to find his way out. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). Scrabblen.² /ˈskrab(ə)l/ Forms: Also scrabble. The proprietary name of a game in which players use tiles displaying individual letters to form words on a special board. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others quek1376 quek-board1477 draughtsc1540 goose1597 mancala1687 pachisi1801 Chinese chequers1840 go1840 shogi1858 wari1866 wei ch'i1871 gobang1875 crokinole1885 Kono1895 salta1901 Snakes and Ladders1907 pegity1925 oware1929 monopoly1934 Scrabble1950 morabaraba1953 Chutes and Ladders1955 pentominos1975 Trivial Pursuit1982 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > word games word-making and word-taking1879 lexicon1932 Scrabble1950 1950 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 Jan. 334/2 The Production and Marketing Corporation, Newtown, Conn... Scrabble. For Game including Board and Playing Pieces. Claims use since Dec. 1, 1948. 1953 New Yorker 30 May 17/2 We present for your edification the history of Scrabble, the biggest thing in games since Monopoly and maybe the biggest thing ever. 1953 New Yorker 30 May 18/1 It was as if everyone alive were suddenly clamoring to play Scrabble. 1954 Trade Marks Jrnl. 21 July 736/1 Scrabble... ‘Board games.’ Production and Marketing Corporation (a Corporation organised and existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, United States of America; Merchants). 1957 T. Girtin in Pick of Punch 150/1 My suspicions were first aroused while I was losing to my wife at ‘Scrabble’. 1959 C. Spry Favourite Flowers iii. 25 For relaxation I sometimes play the spelling game of Scrabble and in consequence am wearing to ribbons the unwieldy volumes of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xxvii. 450 He likes going home early,..and plays bridge or scrabble in the evenings. 1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face ix. 107 After the meal we played liar dice or Scrabble. 1978 J. Matson Dear Osborne xxii. 151 Scrabble, Shove Ha'penny and Draughts indicate the levels of skills and activities. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1954 Newsweek 26 Apr. 57 To help Scrabble fans, crossword-puzzle addicts, and other persons troubled for a word ending in ‘x’, ‘y’, or ‘z’, a ‘reverse’ dictionary has been compiled at the University of Massachusetts. 1956 N. Streatfeild Judith ii. 117 Cynthia sprawled over the Scrabble board. 1960 Sunday Express 11 Sept. 6/6 I leave it to Oscar, the Scrabble-playing cat, to dredge up obscure words. 1967 Sci. Amer. Sept. 268/1 The Double-Crostic and games of the Scrabble type can be thought of as combinatorial play in which 26 elements (letters) are arranged into sets (words). 1977 B. Garfield Recoil x. 103 Anna made a word on the Scrabble board and watched him enter the score. Draft additions 1993 ˈScrabbler n. one who plays Scrabble. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others > player in specific game Scrabbler1954 1954 Orleans & Jacobson More Fun with Scrabble i. 7 This book is designed to give the Scrabbler more opportunities to enjoy his Scrabble board and tiles. 1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1384/2 This innovative, intelligent and enjoyable dictionary will not serve for reading Hamlet or Burns..; scrabblers and crossword-puzzlers will find it uncooperative. 1989 Los Angeles Times 20 May v. 13/5 Higher-rated Scrabblers—like poker's master bluffers—frequently commit parricide with impunity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020). scrabblev. /ˈskrab(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1600s scrable. Etymology: < Dutch schrabbelen (in sense 2; for sense 1 compare schrabbelaar ‘bad writer, scrawler’, Verdam), frequentative of schrabben scrab v. 1. a. intransitive. To make marks at random; to write in rambling or scrawling characters; to scrawl, scribble. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > illegibly or untidily scrabble1537 scribble1573 to scrawl it1611 scribble-scrabble1847 1537 Bible (Matthew's) 1 Sam. xxi. 13 And he..raued in their handes and scrabled on the dores of the gate. [So 1611.] 1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe xlvii. 425 [They] frame such compositions of sacred lines, as men in phrenzie..do out of scrabled walls or painted cloaths. a1628 J. Preston Serm. before His Majestie (1630) 86 We reckon men mad..when they scrabble vpon the walls. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 202 Scrabble, to write in an uncouth and unsightly manner; to make unmeaning marks, as boys often do with chalk on a wall or gate. a1889 in Baring-Gould & Sheppard Songs of West (1905) 67 So with his finger dipp'd in blood, He scrabbled on the stones. b. transitive. To write or depict (something) in a scrawling manner; also, to scrawl upon (something). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily scribblec1456 bescribble1582 scrawl1612 scratch1806 scribble-scrabble1847 scrabble1856 squiggle1942 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain (1879) ii. v. 386 I do scrabble down things that tease me by running in my head, when I want to clear my brains. 1857 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters ii. 21 One of my first attempts at a work of art was to scrabble his initials with my fingers, in red paint, on the house-door. 1883 Spectator 5 May 557 Technically the painting is better..though the white ruff of the collie could be improved by being toned down, and not being scrabbled about so much. 1894 Cornhill Mag. June 635 The face of the cliff is..scrabbled all over with marks of men's hands making homes for themselves in the living rock. 2. a. intransitive. Of an animal: To scratch about hurriedly with the claws or paws; hence, of a person, to scratch or scrape about with the hands or feet. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > scratch about scrat1556 scrabble1600 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > scratch or scrape about scrat1556 scrabble1600 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xv. 93 Cast out..fresh straw right ouer against the barne, where the pullen vse to scrabble. 1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous xiii. 240 Tis a low, Dunghil spirit; fit for nothing but to rake, and scrabble in the dirt. 1863 Wood in Intellectual Observer IV. 22 The mole..then scrabbled about until he came upon the rest of the worm. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 74 Gangs of the prying gull That shriek and scrabble on the riven hatches. 1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth (1906) 62 Upon which Victorine looked coy, and began scrabbling with her toes on the parquet. b. transitive. To make scratching movements with. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > make scratching movements scrabble1890 1890 W. H. Pollock in Longman's Mag. Aug. 406 The parrot..scrabbled his beak on the edge of his food-can. 3. intransitive. Of a person: To scramble on hands and feet; to stumble or struggle along; literal and figurative; also occasionally of an animal. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > scramble scrawl1530 sprawl1582 scramblea1586 scrabble1638 scrubblec1854 1638 2nd Relat. Accidents Wydecombe 23 Then presently the rest of the people scrabled forth the Church as well as they could. 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §198 I did liken myself..unto..a child that was fallen into a mill-pit, who, though it could make some shift to scrabble and sprawl in the water, yet [etc.]. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 167 Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way. View more context for this quotation 1738 Universal Spectator 11 Nov. 3/3 The Hog had scrabbled up Stairs, shook the Child out of its blankets, [and] kill'd it. 1742 J. Wesley Extract of Jrnl. 1 Mar. (1749) 32 The boat..was driven down among the rocks: on one of which we made shift to scrabble up. 1774 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 12 One member of the General Court, he said, as they came down stairs after their dissolution at Salem said to him, ‘Though we are killed, we died scrabbling, did not we?’ 1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 115 Scrabbling out of the cavity, without assistance. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 202 I have hard work to get a living, but I hope I shall manage to scrabble on. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. vi. 106 A dozen or so of poor creatures,..too tipsy to battle with the wind,..wallowed upon sacks, and scrabbled under the stanchion-boards, where the gaiety [of the Fair] had been. 1900 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea 184 The poor possessors of only a four-oared galley hope to rise to the dignity of a lugger, so that they may quit scrabbling along the shores. 4. transitive. To scratch or rake (something) up, off, out, etc. hurriedly; to obtain by scratching or raking about. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > remove or displace by scratching, scraping, stripping, or cutting bestrip1065 file?c1225 to cut awayc1320 raze1419 screeve?1440 rakec1475 to scrape out, forth1530 scrata1560 scrabble1657 scamble1707 peel1787 the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by searching findOE forage1630 scrabble1657 to grope out1701 routc1776 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip by scraping > a covering scrapea1382 scratc1500 detract1607 scrabble1808 the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > (as) with a rake rakea1420 rive1440 fidder1611 scrabble1899 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > make a hole by scratching or scraping scrabble1905 1657 J. Bunyan Vind. Gospel Truths (1862) II. 203 How dost thou run about the bush, seeking to scrabble up an answer. 1658 F. Osborne Trad. Mem. Raigne Iames 85 in Hist. Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & Iames The King..casting himselfe upon the heap scrabled out the quantity of 2 or 3 hundred poundes. 1808 Sporting Mag. 32 82 The wool, with part of the skin scrabbled off. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 121 The snow had been scrabbled up by the puffed hands in the death agony. 1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 95 The trimmers must lie flat and scrabble the coal away as fast as it is pelted down. 1905 E. Nesbit Amulet i, in Strand Mag. May 587/2 It scrabbled a hasty hole in the sand. 5. intransitive. To struggle or scramble for (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (intransitive)] > try to obtain > by struggling with others scamble1539 scramblec1590 scrabble1697 1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife iii. 34 That Phantome of Honour, which men in every Age have so contemn'd, they have thrown it amongst the Women to scrable for. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 399 A generous juvenile ‘scrammles’ a handful ‘o' peis’, which are instantly ‘scrabbled’ for. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1794n.²1950v.1537
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