scrabbly

scrab·ble  (skrbl)

v. scrab·bled, scrab·bling, scrab·bles

v.intr.

1. To scrape or grope about frenetically with the hands.

2. To struggle by or as if by scraping or groping.

3. To climb with scrambling, disorderly haste; clamber.

4. To make hasty, disordered markings; scribble.

v.tr.

1. To make or obtain by scraping together hastily.

2. To scribble on or over.

n.

1. The act or an instance of scrabbling.

2. A scribble; a doodle.

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[Dutch schrabbelen, from Middle Dutch, frequentative of schrabben, to scrape; see sker-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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scrabbler n.

scrabbly adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

scrabbly - sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods" scrubby wooded - covered with growing trees and bushes etc; "wooded land"; "a heavily wooded tract"