scrappy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: scrap=py

CIDE DICTIONARY

scrappy, a. 

 Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.  [1913 Webster]
"A dreadfully scrappy dinner."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scrappy, adj. (scrappier, scrappiest)
1 consisting of scraps.
2 incomplete; carelessly arranged or put together.

Derivative

scrappily adv. scrappiness n.

THESAURUS

scrappy

aggressive, antagonistic, argumental, argumentative, arrested, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brawling, broken, broken off, callow, capricious, careening, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, catchy, chauvinist, chauvinistic, chopped-off, choppy, combative, contentious, controversial, decousu, defective, deficient, desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, disputatious, eccentric, embryonic, enemy, episodic, erratic, failing, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, full of fight, guttering, halting, hawkish, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hostile, hypoplastic, immature, immethodical, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inadequate, incoherent, incomplete, inconstant, infant, inimical, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, lacking, litigious, lurching, martial, militant, militaristic, military, missing, needing, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, offensive, parenthetic, part, partial, patchy, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rambling, rough, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scant, scanty, short, shy, sketchy, snatchy, soldierlike, soldierly, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, suspended, trigger-happy, truculent, uncertain, unconnected, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unequal, uneven, unfriendly, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, variable, veering, wandering, wanting, warlike, warmongering, warring, wavering, wobbling, wobbly