Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shambling, ungainly fellow.
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Examples
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Coloring Book (1997-2005) is an irregularly shaped plinth overlaid with secondhand scribble-scrabble.
Koons��� Expensive Distractions Clutter Met���s Summer Rooftop 2008
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As it stands, I am unable to get past your typos and misspellings … the idea gets lost in the scribble-scrabble.
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The respectable lawyers who scribble-scrabble your deeds and your wills look the deaths of living people in the face.
The Woman in White 2003
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As this is to be a scribble-scrabble letter, I direct it to you, for it may amuse you, and give you some idea of my goings on, for though quiet, they are rather amusing, for which, oh, be joyful!
Little Women 1921
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I inclose with this the pages of feeble scribble-scrabble which the creature Sharpin calls a report.
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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The respectable lawyers who scribble-scrabble your deeds and your wills look the deaths of living people in the face.
The Woman in White 1860
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As this is to be a scribble-scrabble letter, I direct it to you, for it may amuse you, and give you some idea of my goings on, for though quiet, they are rather amusing, for which, oh, be joyful!
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860
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The respectable lawyers who scribble-scrabble your deeds and your wills look the deaths of living people in the face.
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1856
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I inclose with this the pages of feeble scribble-scrabble which the creature Sharpin calls a report.
The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins 1856
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