Scrabbled vs Scrobbled - What's the difference?
scrabbled | scrobbled |
(scrabble)
To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To move something about by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
To scribble.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 13
To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
(scrobble)
(slang) To waylay, kidnap or steal.
* (John Masefield)
* Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (page 73)
(internet slang) To publish one's music-listening habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain songs are played.
As verbs the difference between scrabbled and scrobbled
is that scrabbled is (scrabble) while scrobbled is (scrobble).scrabbled
English
Verb
(head)scrabble
English
Verb
(scrabbl)- Thus I lay for a long time, but afterwards stood up and cried aloud, and shrieked if anyone should haply hear me, calling to Mr. Glennie and Ratsey, and even Elzevir, by name, to save me from this awful place. But there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
- She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
- David scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
- to scrabble paper
Derived terms
* hardscrabble * scrabblerSee also
* scrap * scrape * scrapple (a sausage-like food)Anagrams
* ----scrobbled
English
Verb
(head)scrobble
English
Etymology 1
1927, in the book .Verb
- They've tried to scrobble another clergyman who was walking into Tatchester from Tineton.
- "We have no intention of violating their market truce. More of waiting till she has left the market and scrobbling her..."
