Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A chip or fragment of stone.
  • noun Same as boasting, 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of scabble.
  • noun Pieces of stone remaining from the process of reducing a stone to a rough square by the axe or hammer.

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Examples

  • For someone with 25 years of experience you are doing a lot of "scabbling" to keep up with Obama.

    Obama considers trip to Iraq 2008

  • Now she is knocking on, relatively, and has been writing drivel about make-up for the last few years she is scabbling desperately for relevance.

    Narcissism: the new journalism Ms Robinson 2007

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