MSNBC: “Facebook Asked To Remove ‘Scrabulous’
Merriam-Webster tells us that SCRABBLE is derived from the Dutch word schrabbelen, or to scratch. HARDSCRABBLE suggests a ‘hard scrape’ in farming marginal land. Many U.S. dictionaries identify the board game as the first definition of the word SCRABBLE, and ‘scramble’ or ‘scribble’ as secondary definitions.