hardscrabble
barren or marginal farmland
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Just 5ft 4in tall, he was literally the "little giant’ - one of five children of a coalminer and hardscrabble farmer ...."
(Rupert Cornwell, Obituary of Carl Albert - The Independent, 9th February, 2000)
(Rupert Cornwell, Obituary of Carl Albert - The Independent, 9th February, 2000)
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Wordwise: Date: 1804. Americanism hard + scrabble, scrape.
