scrappiness, and scrappily, adj., subs. and adv. (colloquial).—Made up of odds and ends; in driblets; without system.
1872. G. ELIOT, Middlemarch, ii. Balanced singsong neatness of his speech … conspicuous from its contrast with good Mr. Brooke’s SCRAPPY slovenliness.
1886. MAX MÜLLER, Goethe and Carlyle, in The Contemporary Review, xlix. 779. [Carlyle] was still a raw, narrow-minded, SCRAPPILY educated Scotchman.
1890. Academy, 12 April, Adv. iv. Well graduated and sufficiently long to avoid SCRAPPINESS.
