scribble
Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
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- Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
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From Middle English scribblen, scriblen, scryblen, scribelen, equivalent to scribe + -le (frequentative suffix).
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Verb Entry 2
- To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.
- I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.
Synonyms: scrabble
- To doodle.
- To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.
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multo-scribbling scribble down scribbler scribbleress transcribble
Verb obsolete, transitive
- To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.