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What is the definition of scrabble?

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== == Verb:

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.

Noun:

1. A scraping or scratching at something with short hurried movements of the fingers, toes, or claws.

2. A frantic groping around in an effort to find something.

3. A climb up or over something, performed hastily or clumsily.

4. A desperate struggle to acquire or gain something.

5. A scribbling of something; something that somebody has scribbled. 1. One who scrapes or scratches at something.

2. One who frantically gropes around in order to find something.

3. One who hastily and clumsily climbs up or over something.

4. One who play the Scrabble game. (informal) == == == == 1. Scratchy: characterized by a scratching sound.

2. Scrubby: thinly covered with vegetation.

The word Scrabble comes from the Dutch word Schrabben, which means to scratch, scrape or grope clumsily or frantically.

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