Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To write (a note, for example) hurriedly without heed to legibility or style.
- intransitive verb To draw (a picture) hurriedly or carelessly.
- intransitive verb To write in a hurried careless way.
- intransitive verb To make meaningless marks, as with a pen or pencil.
- noun Careless hurried writing.
- noun Meaningless marks and lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To write with haste, or without care or regard to correctness or elegance: as, to
scribble a letter or pamphlet. - To cover or fill with careless or worthless writing, or unintelligible and entangled lines.
- To write without care or regard for correctness or elegance; scrawl; make unintelligible and entangled lines on paper or a slate for mere amusement, as a child does.
- noun Hurried or careless writing; a scrawl; hence, a shallow or trivial composition or article: as, a hasty scribble.
- noun [In the following quotation the word is used figuratively for a hurried, scrambling manner of walking, opposed to “a set pace,” as a scribble is to “a set copy.”
- To card or tease coarsely; pass, as cotton or wool, through a scribbler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Woolen Manuf.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
- intransitive verb To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
- transitive verb To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance.
- transitive verb To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
- noun Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
write ordraw carelessly and in ahurry - verb To
doodle - verb obsolete To
card ortease (wool) coarsely; to run through ascribbler . - noun Careless, hasty
writing ordrawing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb write carelessly
- noun an aimless drawing
- verb write down quickly without much attention to detail
- noun poor handwriting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I see you are always _at it_ in the old way -- _scribble, scribble, scribble_! "
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To arrest Lee for that scribble is completely out of proportion.
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To arrest Lee for that scribble is completely out of proportion.
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Reilly recalled a scribble on a NOAA white board during the early days of the spill indicating that officials immediately realized the leak could be much bigger.
Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response
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Reilly recalled a scribble on a NOAA white board during the early days of the spill indicating that officials immediately realized the leak could be much bigger.
Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response
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Reilly recalled a scribble on a NOAA white board during the early days of the spill indicating that officials immediately realized the leak could be much bigger.
Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response
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Your dilectissime [sic] letter of the l6th arrived this morning and I must scribble a word of reply.
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Fockers, Terri Polo (that's Polo, as in horses, not as in chicken) has what's best described as a scribble on her left breast (alongside a wonky heart).
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The researchers studied the activity of two genes in fruits flies: RAS that is responsible for 30 percent of cancers and a gene called scribble that thwarts cancer, but promotes it if it becomes mutated.
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The researchers studied the activity of two genes in fruits flies: RAS that is responsible for 30 percent of cancers and a gene called scribble that thwarts cancer, but promotes it if it becomes mutated.
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