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scrappy
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.
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, wobblyFor further exploring for "scrappy" in Webster Dictionary Online