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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scrappy \Scrap"py\, adjective Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.
A dreadfully scrappy dinner. --Thackeray.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scrappy
adjective: full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral" [also: {scrappiest}, {scrappier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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