Meaning

2 senses
  1. Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.

  2. Having a stem too weak to support itself, instead attaching to and relying on the stems or trunks of stronger plants.

Origin

(linguistics): Coined by American linguist John R. Ross in 1967.

(linguistics): Coined by American linguist John R. Ross in 1967.

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Forms

more scrambling, most scrambling
Comparativemore scrambling Lesson
Superlativemost scrambling Lesson

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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