Scrappy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scrappy \Scrap"py\, a.
     Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or
     consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.
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           A dreadfully scrappy dinner.             --Thackeray.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scrappy
       adj : full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral"
       [also: {scrappiest}, {scrappier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  155 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wobbly