1. To scrape or grope about frenetically with the hands. 2. To struggle by or as if by scraping or groping. 3. To climb with scrambling, disorderly haste; clamber. 4. To make hasty, disordered markings; scribble.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To make or obtain by scraping together hastily. 2. To scribble on or over.
NOUN:
1. The act or an instance of scrabbling. 2. A scribble; a doodle.
ETYMOLOGY:
Dutch schrabbelen, from Middle Dutch, frequentative of schrabben, to scrape. See sker-1 in Appendix I.
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