hardscrabble

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Of or pertaining to land that takes a lot of work in order to farm and even then is not very productive

In the case of Allegheny Briskow, poverty, the drought, the grinding hardships of these hard-scrabble Texas counties, had dwarfed the intellect, the very soul of a splendid young animal.

said of land that takes a lot of work in order to farm and even then is not very productive
of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"
yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"
{s} unrewarding, providing very little profit or reward in return for a great deal of effort
yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil
hardscrabble

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    hard·scrab·ble

    Türkçe nasıl söylenir

    härdskräbıl

    Telaffuz

    /ˈhärdˌskrabəl/ /ˈhɑːrdˌskræbəl/

    Etimoloji

    [ 'härd-"skra-b&l ] (adjective.) 1804. hard + scrabble