scrabble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A scramble.
    — a scrabble for dear life
动词 v.
  1. To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws. intransitive
    — […] 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.
  2. To gather hastily. transitive
    — “Oh. The perfect ending to the perfect-- [chuckles] I almost said evening. More like months, though, isn't it? Since we started scrabbling for coins because the damn government took away our-- every thing. They took everything. And the only thing that was left, you idiots either lost, gave away, ate, or just blew up and sank.”
  3. To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws. intransitive
    — She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
  4. To scribble. intransitive
    — David […] scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
  5. To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on. transitive
    — to scrabble paper

词形变化

scrabbles present,singular,third-person scrabbling participle,present scrabbled participle,past scrabbled past scrabbles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hardscrabble scrabbler scrabbly scribble-scrabble
相关词
scrab scramble scrap scrape scrapple

词源

词源 1
From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben (“to scrape”), equivalent to scrab + -le. More at scrape.
词源 2
From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben (“to scrape”), equivalent to scrab + -le. More at scrape.
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