Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chip or fragment of stone.
- noun Same as
boasting , 2.
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- verb Present participle of
scabble . - noun Pieces of stone remaining from the process of reducing a stone to a rough square by the
axe orhammer .
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Examples
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For someone with 25 years of experience you are doing a lot of "scabbling" to keep up with Obama.
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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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