Meanings
comparative more scramblesome · superlative most scramblesome
- rareCharacterised or marked by scrambling (all senses)
The next year they won seven and weren't eliminated from championship contention in the scramblesome Southwest Conference until upset on Thanksgiving Day by Texas.
2005, Bob Ryan, The Best of Sport2 more examples
[…] a cross section of the vale representing something like an old-fashioned capital V, flattened at the bottom just enough to contain the stream, and a couple of narrow scramblesome banks.
1887, Francis Francis, Angling Reminiscences, page 79It was a wild, scramblesome evening during which some 6,500 patrons saw the Tigers trail by 7-0 at the end of the first quarter, tie it by the half, 7-7, and go in front, 14-13, at the end of three, which is the way It ended.
1963, Hattiesburg American Newspaper Archives
Origin
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