hardscrabble
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hard·scrab·ble
(härd′skrăb′əl)adj.
Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.
n.
Barren or marginal farmland.
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hardscrabble
(ˈhɑːdˌskræbəl)n
1. (modifier) (of a place) difficult to make a living in; barren
2. great effort made in the face of difficulties
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hard•scrab•ble
(ˈhɑrdˌskræb əl)adj.
providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort: a hardscrabble existence.
[1795–1805]
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| Adj. | 1. | hardscrabble - barely satisfying a lower standard; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life" |
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