Meaning & use
scrabbly
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informal: rough, scrawled, or messily uneven, especially of handwriting or a scratchy surface.
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His scrabbly handwriting was almost impossible to decipher.
They hiked over scrabbly rock before reaching the smoother trail.
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Related to the verb 'scrabble', meaning to scratch or scrape frantically, which also gave the word its rough, uneven connotation.
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