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scrambly

adj

Etymology

From scramble + -y.

  1. derived from schramm
  2. derived from schrammen — “to scratch, scrape”
  3. derived from schrammen — “to graze, scratch”
  4. formed as scramble — “scramb + -le”
  5. suffixed as scrambly — “scramble + y”

Definitions

  1. Involving a certain amount of climbing.

    • You can now take a steep and scrambly path uphill to the higher, waymarked path, or else return to the roadside for the official start of that same path.
    • A ledge takes you behind the first fall, then it's over a rise and down a steep scrambly gully in the shadow of towering red flanks...
    • In summer this is a scrambly mixture of vegetation and loose rock; when frozen solid or snow covered it's rather more pleasant.

  2. scrambled, mixed-up, unclear, garbled

    • It is possible, in this scrambly way, not only to see colours, but almost to smell them, too.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA