scramblesome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From scramble +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

scramblesome (comparative more scramblesome, superlative most scramblesome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by scrambling (all senses)
    • 1887, Francis Francis, Angling Reminiscences, page 79:
      [] a cross section of the vale representing something like an old-fashioned capital V, flattened at the bottom just enough to contain the stream, and a couple of narrow scramblesome banks.
    • 1963, Hattiesburg American Newspaper Archives[1]:
      It was a wild, scramblesome evening during which some 6,500 patrons saw the Tigers trail by 7-0 at the end of the first quarter, tie it by the half, 7-7, and go in front, 14-13, at the end of three, which is the way It ended.
    • 2005, Bob Ryan, The Best of Sport:
      The next year they won seven and weren't eliminated from championship contention in the scramblesome Southwest Conference until upset on Thanksgiving Day by Texas.