Hardscrabble. 가난한. 겨우 먹고사는. 겨우 경작가능한.
Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant announced "a complete siege" of the Gaza Strip that would sever electricity, gas and even food and water supplies - to an already hardscrabble place.
1
(토지,농장) 겨우 경작가능한 토지.
: being or relating to a place of barren or barely arable soil
a hardscrabble farm
hardscrabble prairies
b. 겨우겨우 풀칠하면서 살아가는.
: getting a meager living from poor soil
a hardscrabble farmer
2. 빈곤,가난한
: marked by poverty
a hardscrabble cotton town
a hardscrabble childhood
(민중서림. 일한 만큼 보답을 못받는, 열심히 일해야 겨우 먹고 살 수 있는. 척박한 토지)
Synonyms 비슷한 말.
barren
bony
boney
dead
desolate
impoverished
infertile
poor
stark
unfertile
unproductive
waste
Examples of hardscrabble in a Sentence
He lived a hardscrabble life.
it was hard to eke out even a bare existence on the hardscrabble lands
Recent Examples on the Web
And on a soggy Patriots Day that also rung in the start of the NHL playoffs, hardscrabble hockey fans did just that.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
As a hardscrabble collection of high-school dropouts and juvenile delinquents, the Replacements’ four members came by their umbrage and fatalism organically.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
Rio Grande do Sul is where the hardscrabble gaucho traditions of previous centuries have been transformed and elevated into an identity.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1879, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of hardscrabble was in 1879
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