Scrabbly vs Scrabble - What's the difference?
scrabbly | scrabble |
Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
* 1992 , G. W. Hawkes, Spies in the Blue Smoke (page 78)
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.
As an adjective scrabbly
is characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.As a verb scrabble is
.scrabbly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That night under the porch there was a scrabbly sound, like a dog in a gravel pile, going steadily on under barks and groans and screeches. Something was digging down deeper.
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