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Scrabble   /skrˈæbəl/   Listen
Scrabble

noun
1.
An aimless drawing.  Synonyms: doodle, scribble.
2.
A board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game.






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"Scrabble" Quotes from Famous Books



... savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale's back. You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ship's steep side, did I hold Queequeg down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... there was a scrabble of paws. Followed a sharp exclamation, and the next moment Patch was leaping frantically to lick her face, while Anthony Lyveden, who had risen to his feet, was staring at her and recoiling, towel in hand, as if he ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... — N. meaninglessness, unmeaningness &c adj.^; scrabble. empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing; sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... at it, and built him a good, substantial plain, brick farm-house in 1854. Not so palatial as some might admire, but a good substantial house; a brick basement under the whole of it, with two stories above. He set it right facing the "Hard scrabble road" and right in front of his door yard was the junction of three roads. He lived on the corners and, by looking south, he could see to the place where he first settled in Michigan, from his own door. He built across ...
— The Bark Covered House • William Nowlin



Words linked to "Scrabble" :   feel, scribble, trademark, drawing, word game, write, board game, grope for, doodle



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