Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hardscrabble"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hardscrabble
adj 1: yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor
soil" [syn: {poor}]
2: of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's
hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" [syn: {marginal}]
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