Rhymes: -æbəl <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span> (not comparable) (Canada, US, of land) Requiring much work to farm, and ultimately not very productive. his <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span> peanut farm...
hard-scrabble (not comparable) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span>....
Times[1]: Save for a rusty, seatless swing set, the Brinket-Hibbard Playlot resembles many vacant lots pockmarking Detroit's <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span> east side....
lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span> childhood. The pair are divided up by social services, Grace sent to...
lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span> childhood. The pair are divided up by social services, Grace sent to...
Alternative form of breeches (pants, trousers). 2003, Thad Sitton, Harder than <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span>: oral recollections of the farming life ..., page 124: And Tom Bowles...
storyteller wants to ban the word ‘gritty’”, in CNN[2]: Suddenly, the <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span>, gritty Detroiters are in need of a savior – someone to rescue us from...
phrase, he said, or maybe it was Ozarkian – a saying that emerged from a <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span> landscape, a realm of rural poverty that always brought to my mind quilts...
one hand, he attempted to mute criticism through his declarations of a <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span> upbringing. On the other hand, he operated as recent nominees Anthony...
jałowy or (mostly archaic) najjałowszy, derived adverb jałowo) barren, <span class="searchmatch">hardscrabble</span>, idling, unfruitful, waste Synonyms: bezpłodny, niepłodny, nieurodzajny...