scrabble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scribble |
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(verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scribble |
(verb) feel searchingly | Synonyms: grope for |
scrabbly | (adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrubby |
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scrag | (noun) the lean end of a neck of veal | Synonyms: scrag end |
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(noun) lean end of the neck | - |
(noun) a person who is unusually thin and scrawny | Synonyms: skin and bones, thin person |
(verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, garrotte |
(verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: choke |
scraggly | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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(adjective) ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance | - |
scraggy | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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(adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy |
scram | (verb) leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form | Synonyms: bugger off, buzz off, fuck off, get |
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scramasax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramaseax, scramsax |
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scramaseax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramasax, scramsax |
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scramble | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scamper, scurry |
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(noun) an unceremonious and disorganized struggle | Synonyms: scuffle |
(verb) make unintelligible | - |
(verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: jumble, throw together |
(verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: beat |
(verb) to move hurriedly | - |
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
scrambled | (adjective) thrown together in a disorderly fashion | - |
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scrambler | (noun) electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception | - |
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(noun) a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground | Synonyms: dirt bike, trail bike |
(noun) a rapid mover; someone who scrambles | - |
scramsax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramasax, scramaseax |
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scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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scrap | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, fighting |
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(noun) a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used | - |
(noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, fleck |
(noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: rubbish, trash |
(verb) make into scrap or refuse | - |
(verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel |
(verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, trash |
scrapbook | (noun) an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted | - |
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scrape | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scar, scratch |
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(noun) a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility) | Synonyms: scraping |
(noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scraping, scratch, scratching |
(noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: abrasion, excoriation, scratch |
(verb) scratch repeatedly | Synonyms: grate |
(verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of | Synonyms: skin |
(verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scratch, scratch up |
(verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape up, scratch |
(verb) make by scraping | - |
(verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, kowtow |
scraper | (noun) any of various hand tools for scraping | - |
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scrapheap | (noun) pile of discarded metal | - |
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(noun) an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter | Synonyms: garbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, refuse heap, rubbish heap, trash heap, trash pile |
scrapie | (noun) a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system | - |
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scraping | (noun) a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility) | Synonyms: scrape |
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(noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scratch, scratching |
(noun) (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected | - |
scrapper | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter |
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scrappily | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: combatively |
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scrappiness | (noun) the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious | - |
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(noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: feistiness |
scrapple | (noun) scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying | - |
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scrappy | (adjective) full of fighting spirit | - |
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scraps | (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, garbage, refuse |
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scratch | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scar, scrape |
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(noun) (golf) a handicap of zero strokes | - |
(noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scrawl, scribble |
(noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratching |
(noun) dry mash for poultry | Synonyms: chicken feed |
(noun) a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game | Synonyms: scratch line, start, starting line |
(noun) a competitor who has withdrawn from competition | - |
(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
(noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, prick, slit |
(noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: abrasion, excoriation, scrape |
(verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scrape, scratch up |
(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub |
(verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe |
(verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up |
(verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike |
(verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, rub |
(verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub |
scratcher | (noun) a device used for scratching | - |
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(noun) a person who scratches to relieve an itch | - |
(noun) a workman who uses a tool for scratching | - |
scratchiness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: abrasiveness, harshness |
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scratching | (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratch |
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scratchpad | (noun) (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information | - |
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scratchy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough |
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(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy |
(adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: spotty, uneven |
(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: abrasive |
scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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scrawl | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scribble |
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(verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
scrawler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scribbler |
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scrawniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: skinniness |
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(noun) the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrubbiness |
scrawny | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrubby, stunted |
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(adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, skinny, underweight, weedy |