Associations to the word «Scrabble»

Wiktionary

SCRABBLE, verb. To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
SCRABBLE, verb. (intransitive) To move something about by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
SCRABBLE, verb. To scribble.
SCRABBLE, verb. To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
SCRABBLE, proper noun. A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.

Dictionary definition

SCRABBLE, noun. An aimless drawing.
SCRABBLE, noun. A board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game.
SCRABBLE, verb. Feel searchingly; "She groped for his keys in the dark".
SCRABBLE, verb. Write down quickly without much attention to detail.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky