How to Spell Hardscrabble?

providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding.

Is hardscrabble a word?

Hardscrabble or Hard Scrabble is land that is rocky or of poor quality, as in the term hardscrabble farm. It is often used as a euphemism for any sort of hard working or poverty, as in hardscrabble childhood.

What does hardscrabble stand for?

1a : being or relating to a place of barren or barely arable soil a hardscrabble farm hardscrabble prairies. b : getting a meager living from poor soil a hardscrabble farmer. 2 : marked by poverty a hardscrabble cotton town a hardscrabble childhood.