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Definition: Scrappy |
ScrappyAdjective1. Full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrappy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
Crosswords: Scrappy |
| English words defined with "scrappy": scrappiness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scrappy": How Manly. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Happy Scrappy (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Like, chill out, Scrappy. You didn't have to try and take over the whole world and destroy humanity. (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scrappy Birthday (1949) Many Scrappy Returns (1927) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Scrappy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.85% of the time. "Scrappy" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.85% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scrappy": bellicose combative pugnacious scrappy truculent ♦ scrappy knowledge ♦ scrappy meal. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lil scrappy | 72 |
scrappy doo | 66 |
scrappy | 21 |
doo picture scrappy | 12 |
lil lyrics scrappy | 7 |
quilt scrappy | 5 |
doo pic scrappy | 4 |
hamilton scrappy | 3 |
mr scrappy | 3 |
doo doo scooby scrappy | 3 |
scooby scrappy | 3 |
loco scrappy | 2 |
doo image scrappy | 2 |
happy hero pup scrappy | 2 |
picture scrappy | 2 |
doo picture scooby scrappy | 2 |
jon lil lil scrappy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scrappy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me ndërprerje, i palidhur (abrupt, disjointed, free, incoherent, skimble-skamble, unattached, unbound, unrelated, untied), i copëzuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كسري مؤلف من كسر, غير مترابط (abrupt, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, incoherent, inconsequent, ragged, rambling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смесен (amalgamated, farraginous, hyphenated, impure, incorporated, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mongrel, promiscuous, raggle-taggle, scratch), който налита на кавга, който налита на бой, кавгаджийски (quarrelsome), откъслечен (fragmentary, piecemeal, snatchy, snippy, straggling), от различни неща, несвързан (confused, delirious, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjointed, incoherent, inconsequent, irrelative, loose, rambling, rhapsodic, unconnected, unrelated), нееднороден, агресивен (aggressive, fresh, truculent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | splácaný (scratch), povrchní (airy, casual, cheap, desultory, dollish, facile, frivolous, lip-deep, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, superficial), útržkovitý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاره پاره , تکه تکه (Patchy, Piecemeal), ستیزه جو (Contentious, Contestant, Currish, Intractable, Pugilist, Quarrelsome, Striver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incomplet, décousu, bagarreur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rauflustige. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καυγατζήσ (brawler, broiler, cantankerous, disputant, quarrelsome, scraper, squabbler, wrangler), κομματιαστόσ (piecemeal), φιλόνικοσ (contentious, disputatious, quarrelsome, scraper, shrewish, stickler), ετερόκλητοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקוטע (amputated, fractionated, fragmentary, segmented), לא ב וי כ"לכ" (jerrybuilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összefüggéstelen (abrupt, discontinuous, discursive, disjointed, inasmuch, incoherent, loose, rambling, skimble-skamble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sconnesso (desultory, disconnected, disjointed, incoherent, rambling), frammentario (fragmentary, piecemeal, snatchy, snippy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | baarnagh (limpet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | appyscray heterogéneo (farraginous, heterogeneous, heterosexual, medley, miscellaneous, piebald, promiscuous, scratch), fragmentário (clastic, fragmentary, piecemeal, snippy, upstage), desligado (dead, desultory, disconnected, incoherent, off, out, rambling, separate, unconnected), desconexo (desultory, disconnected, fragmentary, incoherent, rambling, unconnected, unrelated). (various references) обрывочный (pate), лоскутной. (various references) svadljiv (bloody minded, cantankerous, contentious, fractious, quarrelsome, shrewish), skrpljen (scratch), sastavljen od otpadaka, borben (combat, militant, truculent). (various references) pobre (abject, beggar, destitute, dismal, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jimp, meager, meagre, mingy, miserable, miserly, needy, pathetic, pathetical, pauper, penurious, poor, wretched), peleón (bully, quarreling, quarrelling, quarrelsome, scrapper), incompleto (incomplete, sketchy, uncompleted), deshilvanado. (various references) stridslysten (bellicose, combative, contentious, controversial, disputatious, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent, warlike), planlös (aimless, casual, desultory, discursive, erratic, planless, promiscuous), osammanhängande (abrupt, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, disjointed, inarticulate, incoherent, inconsequent, inconsequential), hoprafsad (pickup), fragmentarisk (fragmental, fragmentary). (various references) เป็นเศษเล็กเศษน้อย, ชอบต่อสู้. (various references) kavgacı (aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combatant, combative, contentious, disagreeable, disputatious, fighter, litigious, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ruffian, spoiling for a fight, turbulent, warlike, wrangler), derme çatma (crazy, hastily put up, jerry built, patchy, rambling, scratch, scratchy), bölük pörçük (bit by bit, fragmentary, in bits, piecemeal), artıklardan oluşan. (various references) уривчастий (curt, desultory, fitful, fragmentary, jerky, patchy, snippy), безладний (amorphous, disorderly, dropping, excursive, harum scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, hurly burly, ill disposed, indiscriminate, inordinate, meandering, messy, orderless, outward, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, rambling, shapeless, topsy turvy, tumultuary). (various references) vụn (clastic), thích đánh nhau (bellicose, pugnacious, termagant), rời thích ẩu đả. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Scrappy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scappa, scrapey, scrapi, scrapie, scrapp, scrappie, scrapy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scrappy" (pronounced skra"pē) |
| 5 | -k r a" p ē | crappie. |
| 3 | -a" p ē | happy, snappy, unhappy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-p-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: crappy. | |
-2 letters: carps, craps, prays, raspy, sappy, scarp, scary, scrap, spacy, spray. | |
-3 letters: arcs, caps, carp, cars, cays, crap, pacs, paps, pars, pays, pray, pyas, racy, raps, rasp, rays, ryas, scar, scry, spar, spay, spry, yaps. | |
-4 letters: arc, ars, asp, ays, cap, car, cay, cry, pac, pap, par, pas, pay, pry, pya, rap, ras, ray, rya, sac, sap, say, spa, spy, yap, yar. | |
-5 letters: ar, as, ay, pa, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-p-p-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: scrappily. | |
+3 letters: hyperspace. | |
+4 letters: hyperspaces, laparoscopy, presynaptic, psychograph, saprophytic. | |
+5 letters: cryptographs, hypercapnias, hyperplastic, perspicacity, psychographs, supplicatory. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 61 70 70 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. .- .--. .--. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r a p p y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0061 0070 0070 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53698467828291 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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