scrabble

(skrăbˈəl)

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.

1. To make or obtain by scraping together hastily.
2. To scribble on or over.

1. The act or an instance of scrabbling.
2. A scribble; a doodle.

Related Forms:

• scrabˈbler noun

• scrabˈbly adjective