scribble

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• transitive v. To write hurriedly without heed to legibility or style.
• transitive v. To cover with scribbles, doodles, or meaningless marks.
• intransitive v. To write or draw in a hurried careless way.
• n. Careless hurried writing.
• n. Meaningless marks and lines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• v. To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry
• v. To doodle
• v. To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
• n. Careless, hasty writing or drawing

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• transitive v. To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
• transitive v. To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance.
• transitive v. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
• intransitive v. To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
• n. Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• 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.
• n. Hurried or careless writing; a scrawl; hence, a shallow or trivial composition or article: as, a hasty scribble.
• n. [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 WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• v. write carelessly
• n. an aimless drawing
• v. write down quickly without much attention to detail
• n. poor handwriting