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Scribble   /skrˈɪbəl/   Listen
verb
Scribble  v. t.  (Woolen Manuf.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.


Scribble  v. t.  (past & past part. scribbled; pres. part. scribbling)  
1.
To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
2.
To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.


Scribble  v. i.  To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl. "If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite."


noun
Scribble  n.  Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. "Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble."





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"Scribble" Quotes from Famous Books



... throw in slips of paper as subjects crossed your mind, you would soon have a skeleton (and that seems to me the difficulty) on which to put the flesh and colours in your inimitable manner. I believe such a book might have a brilliant success, but I did not intend to scribble so much about it. ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin
... fingers, but I rather guess there's more headache in the stories than there is in the stitches, because you don't have to think quite so hard while your foot's going as you do when your fingers is at work, scratch, scratch, scratch, scribble, ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... by its hair, a long-drowned corpse. If we are, as assuredly we are, writing with invisible ink our whole life's history on the pages of our own minds, and if we shall have to read them all over again one day, is it not tragic that most of us scribble the pages so hastily and carelessly, and forget that, 'what I have written I have written,' and what I have written ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... that?" inquired he, all trace of ill-humor gone. "Wife," he resumed, after a gallant scribble, "I ...
— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade
... however, a healthy plant, and in his school-days this born song-writer would scribble verses on his copy-books and read Racine for his own amusement. Turning his back upon the mill-wheels of his native town and an assured future in a Parisian business house, like Gil Bias's friend, il s'est jete dans le ...
— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards


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