scrattling

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adjective

Scanty, beggarly.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of scrattle
adjectivescrattling (comparative more scrattling, superlative most scrattling)

comparative more scrattling · superlative most scrattling

  1. Scanty, beggarly.

    "And he gives me a scrattlin' twenty-five, an' his club this week! But I know him. He thinks because YOU'RE earning he needn't keep the house any longer. No, all he has to do with his money is to guttle it. But I'll show him!"

    1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
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