scrappy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
scrappy
    adj 1: full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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